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Meanings of common prudence in English

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Usage of common prudence in English
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The settled plan to kill made His absence a matter of common prudence.
Quiet Talks on John's Gospel
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The disloyal were bitter and not always restrained by common prudence.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-No...
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But, with common prudence in investments, it is not so now.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
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The captain said we ought to shorten sail anyway, out of common prudence.
A Tramp Abroad
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He says, that in these conversations, Collot let himself out without common prudence.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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This is a very dubious matter, and common prudence suggests a little consideration.
The Maid of Maiden Lane
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But I am not going to quarrel with your ideas of common prudence, Mrs.
The Claverings
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That was common prudence in such a small boat, and not armed-asI am.
The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
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They would have done the same for thee hadst thou behaved with common prudence.
The Valley of the Kings
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It was an awful scourge, and common prudence suggested flight.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
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But doth not also common prudence in worldly affairs demand the use of secrecy?
Mysticism and its Results: Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Ab...
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Thoreau's early death was the direct result of his reckless lack of common prudence.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
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Ordinary diligence is that which persons of common prudence use in conducting their own affairs.
The Government Class Book / Designed for the Instruction of Yout...
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In fact he could not very well fall back now, with common prudence and self-denial.
The Doctor's Dilemma
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With only common prudence, he may cease from exertion or industry, and remain in affluence.
An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of ...
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But, strange to tell, what common prudence would have so confidently predicted did not happen.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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