Samuel Johnson Quotes about Prudence

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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.

School, Prudence, Axioms

Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: including the series edited with prefaces, biographical and critical”, p.277

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

Samuel Johnson

May, Said, Prudence

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.25