“The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.”

—  P.T. Barnum

Ch. 10: "Let hope predominate but be not too visionary" http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/moneygetting_chap11.html
Art of Money Getting (1880)

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