John Dryden, Fables, The Cock and the Fox, line 20.
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According to her cloth she cut her coat.
— John Dryden on Prudence
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Source: Wikiquote: "Prudence" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 645-47.)
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