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In life, as in chess, forethought wins. - Charles Buxton To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool. - Lord David Cecil (Edward Christian David Cecil) As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. - Confucius If I foreknew, foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, which had no less proved certain unforeknown. - John Milton Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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