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Quote by Henry Fielding
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness

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

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on. – Henry Fielding

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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. – Henry Fielding

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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. – Randolph Silliman Bourne

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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. – William Blake

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Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time. – Publilius Syrus

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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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