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Prudent people are very happy; tis an exceeding fine thing, thats

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

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

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Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged. – Proverb

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