“Yesterday is safe,
Tomorrow's full of danger,
Yesterday's a face I know,
Tomorrow is a stranger.”
Henry Summers (1911–2005) British civil servant
"A Spell for Midnight"
“Yesterday’s underdog is tomorrow’s tyrant.”
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: With the flag to Pretoria (p. 738)
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