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FIVE-YEARS' PLANS are popular nowadays, and some of their begetters may have cause to remember with a wry smile Johnson's remark to Reynolds that “There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion shewing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the authour promised to himself and to the publick”.
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The British Association: A Five-Years' Retrospect, 1931–35. Nature 137, 892–894 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137892a0
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