"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," for one (5)

I believe the answer is:

maxim

(Other definitions for maxim that I've seen before include "Pithy statement of a general truth" , "Old machine-gun" , "Gorky saw" , "- Gorky, Russian writer" , "Proverb, aphorism" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.

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