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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Aldous Huxley
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1956 'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.