Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd t…

Benjamin Franklin
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Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection. ✨ Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1734
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