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“It's an opportunity to buy more... The one piece of advice I would categorically give everybody is: For God’s sake, don’t stop a program of regular investing because the market goes down. You’re killing the whole value of dollar-cost averaging.

— John C. Bogle
Founder, The Vanguard Group
Bogleheads conference, 2018
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