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Prudence He does well who moors his boat with two anchors. PUBLILIUS SYRUS
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Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head. THOREAU
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Without doubt, prudence is a virtue. As the Ashanti say, 'No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness,' Tennessee Williams observed.
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One frankness invites a reciprocal frankness, and draws forth discoveries, like wine and love,' wrote Montaigne.
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The meaning of things lies not in things themselves, but in out attitudes to them.' ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
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In the preface to his little book of miscellaneous essays called Guesses at Truth, the nineteenth-century cleric Julius Hare wrote, 'I here present you with a few suggestions ... little more than glimmerings, I had almost said dreams, of thought ... If I am addressing one of that numerous class who read to be told what to think, let me advise you to meddle with this book no further. You wish to buy a house ready furnished; do not come to lo..
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Our repentance is not so much regret for the evil we have done as fear of what might happen to us because of it. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. HERMAN MELVILLE
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Civility The knowledge of courtesy is a very necessary study; like grace and beauty, it breeds mutual liking. MONTAIGNE
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