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Advice comes too late when a thing is done.

Proverb collected by Thomas Preston

Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 11. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_11

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At a great bargain make a great pause.
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