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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Charles Caleb Colton
Certain, Diffidence, Has Beens
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.4
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.