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Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor. ↗

— Charles Churchill

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In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie. ↗

— Criss Jami

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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity. ↗

— Periander

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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. ↗

— Anatole France

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The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited. ↗

— Townsend Harris

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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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