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Where did the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" come from

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"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" is an expression for an avoidable error when something good is eliminated when trying to get rid of something bad, or in other words, rejecting the favorable along with the unfavorable.
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