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"Had we succeeded well, We had been reckoned 'mongst the wise: our minds Are so disposed to judge from the event. " Euripides
"It is a thoroughly unfair, but an ordinary custom, to praise or blame designs (which in themselves may be good or bad) just as they turn out well or ill. Hence the same actions are at one time attributed to earnestness and at another to vanity. " Pliny Min.