"Prudence, like experience, must be paid for."

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Source : Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.77

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Prudence Quotes

“Ya hafta be there for Beck. He only has you." Riley sighed. "I'll get the car.”

Source : Jana Oliver (2011). “The Demon Trapper's Daughter: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.327, Macmillan
“We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.”
“The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.”

Source : Eric Gill (1937). “Work & property &c”
“I'm sitting on the stile. Mary, Where we sat side by side.”
“At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It was then that I became addicted to reading. A great writer can attach themselves to your mind and heart, and you feel you understand the world better. As long as you have the capacity to read, you needn't be alone any more. I remember thinking as a child, "If I could give one person the comfort I keep getting from books, then I want to write."”
“My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.”
“For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.”

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