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33.

By saying this, Solon did not at all please Croesus, who sent him away without regard for him, but thinking him a great fool, because he ignored the present good and told him to look to the end of every affair.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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