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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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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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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. – Henry de Bracton

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

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