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The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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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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Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

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But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

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I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. ↗

— William Cowper

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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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