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egg quotes

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“It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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