“3739. One Bird in the Hand, is worth two in the Bush.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 4.
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