THE DOG AND HIS IMAGE

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|A Dog, with a bit of meat in his mouth, was crossing a river. Looking

down he saw his image in the water, and thought it was another dog, with

a bigger piece. So he dropped what he had, and jumped into the water

after the other piece. Thus he lost both pieces: the one he really had,

which he dropped; and the other he wanted, which was no piece at all.

This is a good fable for greedy people.

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