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“Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ea0596909ca7397cfaa5f78d3621355012f15c6d809fadabb868a7c1d60c0521
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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