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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Not collected in later books.