Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Anderson
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Aesop
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Leo Tolstoy
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant
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