“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
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Life and Habit http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lfhb10h.htm, ch. 8 (1877)
“2916. It is better to have a Hen to Morrow, than an Egg to Day.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734) : An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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