“The future… seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.”

— Edward Young

Widely attributed to Edward Young, but in fact written by E. B. White in Harper's Magazine (December 1940), and reprinted in his One Man's Meat (1942).
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