“An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.”

Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 5, section 2, "The Bagful of Dreams"

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American mystery and speculative fiction writer 1916–2013

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