Prudence is the virtue of the sense. It is the science of Appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Prudence is the virtue of the sense. It is the science of Appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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