QuoteQuest“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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AttributedRecorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Written in a letter to Robert Ross from Paris (31 May 1898)
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Wilde, Oscar. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde
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