Brewer's: Ex Uno Omnes

means from the one instance deduced you may infer the nature of the rest. A general inference from a particular example. If one oak-tree bears acorns, all other oak-trees will grow similar fruit.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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