Prudence is Cheerfulness.
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild and acclamation cannot exhilarate. Those soft intervals of unbended amusement in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments and disguises which he feels, in privacy, to be useless encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the exeCLition. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often
dressed for show in painted honour and fictitious benevolence.—Johnson.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20483, 8 December 1934, Page 25 (Supplement)
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137Prudence is Cheerfulness. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20483, 8 December 1934, Page 25 (Supplement)
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