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The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis, Washington Irving (1840). “The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine”, p.520
The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.