"Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages."

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I once wrote deduceable instead of deducible in a book, though nobody then or since has taken me up on it. A small point as they go, perhaps, but Rule I of writing acceptably is to get everything right as far as you can, and in this case I had neglected to.

— Kingsley Amis