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Circumspection which is so requisite in such affairs.
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The convention was emphatic on the obligations of the people and the alternatives before them: “It is your Interest to revise the draft constitution with the greatest Care and Circumspection, and it is your undoubted Right,” it said, “either to propose such Alterations and Amendments as you shall judge proper, or, to give it your Sanction in its present Form, or, totally to reject it.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The convention was emphatic on the obligations of the people and the alternatives before them: “It is your Interest to revise the draft constitution with the greatest Care and Circumspection, and it is your undoubted Right,” it said, “either to propose such Alterations and Amendments as you shall judge proper, or, to give it your Sanction in its present Form, or, totally to reject it.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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The convention was emphatic on the obligations of the people and the alternatives before them: “It is your Interest to revise the draft constitution with the greatest Care and Circumspection, and it is your undoubted Right,” it said, “either to propose such Alterations and Amendments as you shall judge proper, or, to give it your Sanction in its present Form, or, totally to reject it.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Care and Circumspection of those Places; I say, they found means to contract an Affection; nor did they stop there, but promis'd personal
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Prudence than Affection; and that he had invented that Story of Mrs. Lowland to try if Jealousy would work upon me, but all my Conduct had been with Caution and Circumspection, quite different from Passion or
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Care and Circumspection of those Places; I say, they found means to contract an Affection; nor did they stop there, but promis'd personal
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Prudence than Affection; and that he had invented that Story of Mrs. Lowland to try if Jealousy would work upon me, but all my Conduct had been with Caution and Circumspection, quite different from Passion or
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Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
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Circumspection is critical in many business situations, especially when you are talking with a person more senior than you, who can have a disproportionate impact on what the top guy Trump thinks of you.
"What? There's another episode?!" Ann Althouse 2005
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