Don't count your chickens

Posted by Nell on July 19, 2010 at 20:08

I have just been reading the book of Chuang Tzu, which is reputed to go back to 2-400BC. I am reading the Penguin edition. In the second chapter, I have just come across the use of the saying "don't count your chickens eggs...". If this part of the translation is original, which I am not certain, then this would be the true origin of this saying and not Aesop's fables and some other guy from the 1500's.

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