“2916. It is better to have a Hen to Morrow, than an Egg to Day.”

—  Thomas Fuller (writer)

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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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

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