[A]nd now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work be
[A]nd now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it. – Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of

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