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Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xv, Line 433...
Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.
-- Frank Tyge...
Discover that you *can* eat seaweed. -- Forty-two things to do as preparation for life as a mermaid.
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgi...
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
-- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Discourse...
Discretion - putting two and two together and keeping your mouth shut.
DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Discussion, n.A method of confirming others in their errors. -- Ambrose Bierce
Disease and deprivation stalk our land like...two giant.
.. ...stalking things. -- Edmund : Sense and Senility...

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