#prude

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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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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I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

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Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years. ↗

— Molly Ivins

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ↗

— Mark Twain

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He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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