Once a man owned a wonderful goose. Every morning when he said, “Lay,”
it laid a golden egg. By and by the man grew so greedy that he wanted
all the golden eggs at once. So he cut open the goose. There wasn’t one
egg in it. And, of course, the goose couldn’t lay any more eggs now. The
foolish man had killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.
—ÆSOP