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Carefulness

noun
1.
The trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger.  Synonyms: caution, cautiousness.
2.
The quality of being careful and painstaking.





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"Carefulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... things that this Pierpont Morgan did not see. What are these things? We have been looking for the things in Carl Hovey's book, peering in between the lines on every page, and turning up his adjectives and looking under them, his adverbs and qualifications, his shrewdness and carefulness for the things that Pierpont Morgan did not see. Pierpont Morgan himself would not have tried to hide them, and neither has his biographer. His whole book breathes throughout with a just-mindedness, a spirit of truth, a necessary and inevitable honesty, which of itself is not the least testimony ...
— Crowds - A Moving-Picture of Democracy • Gerald Stanley Lee
... but quietly, so as not to arouse notice. Even the holy apostles themselves were content to abide quiet and silent amid perils that threatened their freedom and safety. They escaped out of various dangers, and used caution and carefulness; and if ...
— For the Faith • Evelyn Everett-Green
... still unwritten. The work is in the hands of his eldest son,—his successor in the editorship of "Lloyd's,"—and will be done with pious carefulness. Meanwhile I cannot do more than sketch the narrative of his life; but so much, at all events, is necessary as shall enable the reader to understand the Genius and Character which I aspire ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various
... Alice said, gently, and her impulsive thought was that Mildred had taken few chances, and that as a matter of self-defense her carefulness might have been well founded. This Mr. Arthur Russell was a much more responsive person than ...
— Alice Adams • Booth Tarkington
... the simple microscope, but I think it was by dint of his great patience and carefulness. It was characteristic of him that he thought many little bits of skilful dissection something almost superhuman. He used to speak with admiration of the skill with which he saw Newport dissect a humble bee, getting out the ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin


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