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The Two Pots

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　A clay pot and a copper pot were floating down the river.

　The clay pot said to the copper pot,

“Don’t come close to me. Please swim away.

　I don’t wish to come near you, because if you bump into me, I will break into pieces.”



　A person in a vulnerable position cannot live in peace near a powerful and greedy man.

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