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 The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part 
I have saved my life.  
 The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part 
I have saved my life. 
She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend read more
She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it.
A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
A lover without discretion is no lover at all.
 Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you 
both; and in any read more 
 Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you 
both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one 
another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; 
for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old 
folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the 
world. 
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that read more
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any one of us to talk about the rest of us.
 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which 
is without discretion.  
 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which 
is without discretion. 
 The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
 That makes him honored or begets him hate;
  For read more 
 The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
 That makes him honored or begets him hate;
  For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. 
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
 The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we 
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
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 The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we 
are a set always ready to believe a scandal.
 [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit:
  Sed nos in vitium credula turba sumus.]