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The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

John Griffin Carlisle

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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Henry Steele Commager

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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

Hannah More

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Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Christine Keeler

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Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Georg Simmel

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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Harry A. Blackmun

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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Walter Scott

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Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

Isaac Barrow

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Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Philip Stanhope

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Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Henry Steele Commager

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