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“To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd, And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- d2a50eb92cff0f3e001d2d26a56b40406868b464f5c1341e81ac362a83b114e0
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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