#discreetly

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. ↗

— William Wycherley

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But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth. ↗

— Marie de France

#heart #love #nothing #passes #person

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English? ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#discreetly #does #english #happy #live

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#discreetly #even #how #knows #possessor

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

— Edmund Waller

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