You should not write a book before you have heard an old sow fart
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"You should not write a book before you have heard an old sow fart; and then you should open your jaws with awe, saying, 'Thank you, lovely nightingale, that is just the text for me!'" --Martin Luther "Du solltest nicht ehe ein Buch schreiben, du hättest denn ein Forz von einer alten Sau gehöret. Da solltest du dein Maul gegen aufsperren und sagen: Dank habe, du schöne Nachtigall, da höre ich einen Text, der ist für mich." |
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"You should not write a book before you have heard an old sow fart" (1541) is a dictum by Martin Luther.
This quote comes from a pamphlet written by Luther entitled "Wider Hans Worst" directed against Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
It is cited in an English translation in Young Man Luther (1958).
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