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The Fox and The Grapes

(Aesop’s Fables)

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“I'm starving...”

　A fox was talking to himself, and walking in the woods.

　In the meanwhile he found plenty of bunches of grapes hanging from the grapevine trellis.

　The fox managed to get some of them,

　but the grapevine trellis was too high for him to reach out.

　After a while, the fox said to himself,

“Well, those grapes are still sour.”

　Then he left from the grapevine trellis, and went somewhere.



　As with this fox, there are also people who would act in the same way to the things that they cannot handle because of their inadequacy.

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