A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
FORESIGHT, n. That peculiar and valuable faculty that enables a politician always to know that his party is going to succeed — as distinguished from Retrospect, which sometimes shows him that it got calamitously beaten.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) American writer and journalist
“Foresight,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-12-13)
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FORESIGHT, n. That peculiar and valuable faculty that enables a politician always to know that his party is going to succeed — as distinguished from Retrospect, which sometimes shows him that it got calamitously beaten. Not collected in later books.WIST Quotations
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