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“I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.”
Philip Roth quotes

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“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.”
Sir Walter Scott quotes (Scottish Novelist, Poet, Historian and Biographer, 1771-1832)
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“Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.”
Donald Rumsfeld quotes (American Secretary of Defense)
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“Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.”
Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes (English Lawyer and Philosopher. 1561-1626)
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“By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.”
Harry A. Blackmun quotes (American Supreme Court justice, 1908-1999)
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“Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca”
George Santayana quotes (Spanish born American Philosopher, Poet and Humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism. 1863-1952)
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“The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.”
Henry Steele Commager quotes
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“I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
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“It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion”
Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes (English Lawyer and Philosopher. 1561-1626)

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