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The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

Clive James
Hindsight, Inevitable, Belittle
Clive James (2008). “Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts”, p.180, W. W. Norton & Company
The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.