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• Never count your chickens before they rip your lips off
• Never count your chickens before they rip your lips off.
• Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
  -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap. lv...
• Don't count your bridges before you burn them.
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