Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding
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“Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.”
Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXVIII, Section 3, p. 321
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