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Discretion is proper to judges.

Democritus once stated that the pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Cicero once suggested that great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

The personal ad asked for interested men to send a letter and a photo, and said that discretion was assured.

Discretion is the better part of valor.

This program contains scenes of violence which may disturb some people.

Viewer discretion is advised.

discrete You need to use more discretion when you raise concerns about the work done by your colleagues.

Author Philip Roth once remarked that discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Students who get a mark which is within one percent of the minimum may be passed at the discretion of the instructor.

He has attained to years of discretion.

I appreciate your discretion in helping me deal with my alcohol problem.

Not only are species which are known to be poisonous to be avoided, but discretion should be used in eating recognized good species.

Hence opium, tobacco, and the fetid gums are often resorted to; and in the hands of a judicious practitioner, they will afford great relief, provided he carefully watch the patient, and prevent their abuse; for, if left to the discretion of the patient, he finds that kind of relief which he has long wished for; his moderation knows no bounds, and he is apt to take them in such a manner, as to add indirect debility, to direct, and thus bring on a state of exhausted excitability, while there is still a diminished state of mental stimulants.

Hence, though some of these narcotic stimulants, which exhaust the excitability, and blunt the feelings, may be employed with advantage, in order to prepare the mind for those changes, which the physician wishes to produce, they should be used with the greatest caution, and never left in any degree to the discretion of the patient.

' 'The Cardinal and the Duke of Gloucester have long been at strife, as we heard,' said Lady Drummond, 'but sure that will be appeased now that the Cardinal is an old man and your King come to years of discretion.

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