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- From: joann@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
- Subject: Re: Discretion
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- Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- References: <1992Dec21.092210.8070@ugle.unit.no> <1992Dec21.123937.4840@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <21DEC199209383451@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:53:12 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....).
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- Henry IV, V, iv, 120. From my Bartlett's 14th. A footnote goes on to
- cite:
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- "It show'd discretion the best part of valor." -- Beaumont & Fletcher,
- "A King and No King" [1619]. So Shakespeare gave us the words and
- B/F the word order.
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- Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu -or- 415/926-2846
- Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
- Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
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