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He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
Yee have many strings to your bowe.
Yee have many strings to your bowe.
Good nature without prudence, is foolishness
Good nature without prudence, is foolishness
 One can't get diseases
of Mad Chicken or Mad Pig
by eating tomatoes or
almonds or figs.  
 One can't get diseases
of Mad Chicken or Mad Pig
by eating tomatoes or
almonds or figs. 
Look before you ere you leap.
Look before you ere you leap.
 Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be 
shunned.  
 Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be 
shunned. 
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of read more
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.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for read more
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself