Prudence is the virtue of the sense. It is the science of Appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has not superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.
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I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. mettle spirited bottom capacity to endure strain.
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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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