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Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.

Pittacus of Mytilene
Good Life, Hands, Failing
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78,
Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.