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«There was an old man with a beard, Who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard»
«The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away»
Author: Fisher Ames | Keywords: eggs, hen, hens, persists, setting
«The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats hen when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it»
Author: Walter Raleigh, Sr. | About: Poverty, Wealth | Keywords: eats, hen, pleases, rich man
«It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.»
«O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! / Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.»
«Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen»
«I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.»
«Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.»
«The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.»
«The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: hen, producing

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