All 7 Uses of
prudent
in
Anna Karenina
- The only happy marriages I know are marriages of prudence.
Part 2 *prudence = good sense and caution
- "Yes, but then how often the happiness of these prudent marriages flies away like dust just because that passion turns up that they have refused to recognize," said Vronsky.†
Part 2
- But by marriages of prudence we mean those in which both parties have sown their wild oats already.†
Part 2
- She was vexed, too, that from all she could learn of this connection it was not that brilliant, graceful, worldly liaison which she would have welcomed, but a sort of Wertherish, desperate passion, so she was told, which might well lead him into imprudence.†
Part 2
- Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.†
Part 5
- Levin thought of the text, not because he considered himself "wise and prudent."†
Part 5
- "I don't like to see such imprudence."†
Part 6
Definition:
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(prudent) sensible and careful