"The last explanation remains to be made about prudence; Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality."
— Prudence

January 1, 1970

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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, "Manhattan Streets I Saunter'd, Pondering"; originally published as "Poem of the Last Explanation of Prudence" (1856).