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— Edwin Hubbel Chapin"Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life."
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I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.
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