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Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow. (Strauss, 1998 p. 75)Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Meaning: "Spread your risks or investments so that if one enterprise fails you will not lose everything."
— Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 63. Retrieved on 18 August 2013.
— First recorded 1662, G. Toriano, Italian proverbial phrases ("To put all one's eggs in a paniard"); 1710, Samuel Palmer, Moral essays on proverbs ("Don't venture all your eggs in one basket").
— Apperson, GL (2006). Dictionary of proverbs. Wordsworth. p. 170.
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