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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often m

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. – Samuel Johnson

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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson

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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. – Samuel Johnson

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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. – John Milton

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. – Charles Caleb Colton

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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. – Henry Fielding

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Prudent people are very happy; tis an exceeding fine thing, thats certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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