"Don't count your boobies until they are hatched."
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"The Unicorn in the Garden", The New Yorker (31 October 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940)
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James Thurber
1894 – 1961
US-amerikanischer Zeichner und Schriftsteller
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