"Show me but one among all the animals whose grimaces I cannot imitate!"
Thus a little monkey boasted to a fox that came to visit him. The fox
bluntly replied to him: "Tell me, you nasty marshelik! To whom would it
ever occur in a year to want to imitate you a whit?"
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The parable, I am sure, may remain without a moral, for each one knows
himself to whom to ascribe it.