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- Subject: Re: Discretion
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- References: <1992Dec21.092210.8070@ugle.unit.no> <1992Dec21.123937.4840@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:00:41 GMT
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- "Discretion is the better part of valor."
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- Isn't there more to this quote? And who is it? I want to say Cicero, but
- that seems more like a wild stab than anything.
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- I believe the discretion quote is made by Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV
- part I.
- Obligatory quote:
- "Tread softly, for this is holy ground.
- It may be, could we look with seeing eyes,
- This spot we stand on is paradise."
- -Christina Rossetti
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- Dominic Macika
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- "Copy for one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
- -Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
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