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"It is always the practice of wise people to reserve something for tomorrow, without venturing all upon one cast." -- Sancho Panza, in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, 1605.
I'll see your Cervantes and raise you a Shakespeare:
"...I thank my fortune for it,
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate
Upon the fortune of this present year."
Antonio
The Merchant of Venice
Act I, Scene 1 (~1596)