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The Two Frogs

(Aesop's Fables)

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　There were two frogs that lived in the neighborhood.

　One of them lived by a deep and big pond, a little way off the road.

　The other lived by a puddle, along the road.

　The pond frog often said to the puddle frog:

”I'll tell you what. It'll be more comfortable and safer to live by the pond. Why don't you move over here?”

　However, the puddle frog never felt up to it.

”I can't leave from a place where I'm used to living.”

　That was what the puddle frog always said.

　In the meanwhile, the puddle frog was run over by a car on the road, and died.

　The same kind of thing could happen to us:

　Those of us who feel that our jobs are not interesting, but do not have courage to make the new move

　incur a loss in life after all.

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