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Success is about being passionately good at one or two things, but students who want to get close to that 4.0 have to be prudentially balanced about every subject.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2016

The composite program, prudentially polished, has every virtue in it but life.

From Time Magazine Archive

There could be no other accounting for the confidence with which Messala pushed his four forward the instant his competitors were prudentially checking their fours in front of the obstruction--no other except madness.

From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Wallace, Lewis

It was too good, and not good enough; and the advice of the younger Pliny: "Aim at pleasing either all, or the few," is as prudentially good as it is philosophically accurate.

From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Smiles, Samuel

How was it ever to be eradicated, if every nation was thus prudentially to wait till the concurrence of all the world should be obtained?

From The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II by Clarkson, Thomas