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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. — Samuel Butler (novelist)

Scientific literature

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Samuel Butler (novelist)
1877
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1877
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Samuel Butler (novelist)
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Butler, Samuel. Life and Habit. London: Trübner and Co., 1877, ch. 8.

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