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The two exist in a perpetual 'lover's quarrel' (art being male and prudence female): prudence is suspicious of art's concern with things in themselves, art is equally suspicious of prudence's utilitarianism.

Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 2: David Jones: Material Words 2005

I put my sneakers back on for prudence's sake and clambered down the slimy boulder slope.

Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998

It was the guild's will to cast me out with no more money than a young journeyman might be expected to possess, and for prudence's sake as well as honor's, so I must go.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

For prudence's sake, he discarded his personality as an Englishman, which was becoming too well known in the district, disguised himself as a workman and made for Cuzion.

The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin Maurice Leblanc 1902

Ganimard had left him in order to go to Yport, six or seven miles from Etretat, where, for prudence's sake, he had told his men to meet him, and where he chartered twelve fishing smacks, with the ostensible object of taking soundings along the coast.

The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin Maurice Leblanc 1902

Commonwealth, but a cavalier from France, with his love-locks shorn for sweet prudence's sake, and a mighty mantle enveloping him from head to foot.

In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

How had the majority fared, -- that majority which remained at the Rito for prudence's sake?

The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877

The reason that we are able to print money today is because we have low inflation, will be Alistair's foundation for doing so, as we watch prudence's last fig leaf blow away.

Capitalists@Work 2009

Palin's conclusion, that the president should boycott the summit, is wise not necessarily for the message it would send to anyone, but merely for prudence's sake.

About.com Conservative Politics: U.S. 2009

The dividend was also cut for prudence's sake, to 15p from 30p a year earlier.

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