There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that…

Leo Tolstoy
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There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so' ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2007). War and Peace, p.647, Penguin
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