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Quote by Samuel Johnson
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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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. – Samuel Johnson

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The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed. – 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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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. – Molly Ivins

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It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art. – Ovid

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I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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