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title: "3 End Prudence Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-great-end-of-prudence-is-to-give-cheerfulness-to-those-hours/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [ \[Prudence\] is the virtue of that part of the intellect \[the calculative\] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/prudence-is-the-virtue-of-that-part-of-the-intellect-the-calculative/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/the-great-end-of-prudence-is-to-give-cheerfulness-to-those-hours-2/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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