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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley

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I try to learn from both, from features and documentaries. In both cases you have to find a way to make the camera as discreet as possible, and flexible enough to be able to capture the moment when it happens. I know from documentary how to not have a preconceived idea of what the scene could be. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! ↗

— Mary Chesnut

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