Mark Twain quote about egg from Following the Equator - Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
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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 (1897). copy citation

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Author Mark Twain
Source Following the Equator
Topic egg noise hen
Date 1897
Language English
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“So there is no real loss. These latter pick up all the discarded days and add them to the world's stock again; and about as good as new, too; for of course the salt water preserves them.
CHAPTER V. Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
—Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 11. In this world we often make mistakes of judgment. We do not as a rule get out of them sound and whole, but sometimes we do. At dinner yesterday evening-present, a mixture of Scotch, English, American, Canadian, and Australasian folk—a discussion broke out about the pronunciation of certain Scottish words.” source

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