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- From: Anu.Kapoor@launchpad.unc.edu (Anu Kapoor)
- Subject: Re: Discretion
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- References: <1992Dec21.092210.8070@ugle.unit.no> <1992Dec21.123937.4840@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <21DEC199209383451@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:59:19 GMT
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- In article <21DEC199209383451@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> isaacman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Subvert the Dominant Paradigm! (301) 513-7769) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.123937.4840@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, macika@emunix.emich.edu (Dominic Macika (Asst. Lab Supervisor)) writes...
- >>"Discretion is the better part of valor."
- >>
- >>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.
- >>
- >The correct quote is "The better part of valor is discretion", and I
- >believe it is from Shakespeare (Hamlet, I think....).
- >
- >Rich Isaacman
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- Sir Jack Falstaff, Henry IV pt 1.
- Act II or II I believe.
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- Cordially,
- Anu Kapoor
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