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Show Discretion. 11 There Is no talent so useful towards ill rising in the world, or which puts !- me'n more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in com- fcl mon speech called discretion; a spe- 'IH cies of lower prudence, by the asHlst- lI ance of which people of the meanest 8 intellects, without any other quallfica-tion, quallfica-tion, pas6 through the world In great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offense. Swift '11 |