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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Edward Gibbon
Future, Science, Past

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Edward Gibbon
Science, Law, Statistics
Gibbon's Autobiography (p. 124)

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