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“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 56a66c5303060f45f2033a66d6f357aa4f8053acbb446b711ab3e11f35fb056f
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Miguel de Cervantes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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Plutarch
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“And wisely tell what hour o' the day The clock does strike, by algebra.”
Samuel Butler
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.”
Thomas Southerne
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”
James Russell Lowell
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have…”
Alfred Tennyson
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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