“Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“It is too soon to say.”
Often, though disputedly, thought to refer to the significance of the French Revolution of 1789, it has been argued that he was actually indicating the French protests of 1968, in "Zhou’s cryptic caution lost in translation" by Richard McGregor in Financial Times (10 June 2011) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/74916db6-938d-11e0-922e-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1PDuP8ZzG.
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