Oscar Wilde: People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because — Oscar Wilde

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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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy. — Fernando Pessoa
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Nimirum hic ego sum. — Here indeed I am; this is my position. Horace
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A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; W — Emily Dickinson