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good judgment or good taste
- As for the particular locality in which the hand-bag was found, a cloak-room at a railway station might serve to conceal a social indiscretion—has probably, indeed, been used for that purpose before now-but it could hardly be regarded as an assured basis for a recognised position in good society.Act 1 — Morning-room in Algernon's flat in Half-Moon Street (77% in)
There are no more uses of "discretion" in The Importance of Being Earnest.
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