Usually means: Caution often outweighs reckless bravery.
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  1. Discretion is the better part of valour: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  2. discretion is the better part of valour: Wiktionary
  3. Discretion is the better part of valour: Phrase Finder
  4. discretion is the better part of valour: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Discretion is the better part of valour: Idioms



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