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Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

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Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

1185. Count not your Chickens before they be hatch'd.

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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The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

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