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"Discretion" Quotes from Famous Books

... important point in the cultivation of this esculent, and should be attended to with painstaking discretion. ...

— Mushrooms: how to grow them - a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure • William Falconer

... numbers; Fair Discretion, string the lyre; Sooth my ever-waking slumbers: Bright ...

— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift

... boxes, barrels—and now and then the body of a cow or horse that has tumbled to its death from some treacherous clay-cliff or rocky terrace. The beaches have been swept clean by the rushing flood, of whatever lay upon them, be it good or bad, for the great scavenger exercises no discretion. ...

— Afloat on the Ohio - An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo • Reuben Gold Thwaites

... but, being heated with wine, in a sudden rage, and that he was in so far more worthy of mercy than young Schopper, who had shed noble blood with a guilty intent, counting on his skill as a swordsman, the Emperor surrendered at discretion. In this he was confirmed by his privy secretary, Caspar Slick, whom the Queen had beguiled; and this man, learned in the law, was ready with a decision which the Imperial magistrate gladly agreed to forthwith, as mild yet sufficient. Matters in short were as follows: ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... "I wish you to accept as a gift from me, given you now, the accompanying pages which contain a memoir of my life. My intention is that they shall be published after my death, and be edited by you. But I leave it altogether to your discretion whether to publish or to suppress the work;—and also to your discretion whether any part or what part shall be omitted. But I would not wish that anything should be added to the memoir. If you wish to say any word as from yourself, let it be ...

— Autobiography of Anthony Trollope • Anthony Trollope

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