Aesop’s celebrated collection of fables has always been popular with both adults and children . These simple tales embody truths so powerful , the titles of individual fables – the fox and the grapes, thedog in the manger, the wolf in sheep’s clothing and many others – haveentered the languges and idioms of most European tongues
So I will give you some of these tales
which will help you to improve your English
and I hope to enjoy in reading them
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The Fox & the Grapes
A hungry fox saw some fine bunches of grabes hanging from avine that was trained along a high as he could into the air. But it was all in vain , for they were just out of reach: so he gave up trying , and walked a way with an air of diginity and unconcern , remarking
I thought those grapes were ripe "
"but I see now they are quite sour
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A man and his wife owned a very special goose. Every day the goose would lay a golden egg, which made the couple very rich
Just think," said the man’s wife
If we could have all the golden eggs that are inside the goose, we could be richer much faster
"You’re right," said her husband, "We wouldn’t have to wait for the goose to lay her egg every day."
So, the couple killed the goose and cut her open, only to find that she was just like every other goose. She had no golden eggs inside of her at all, and they had no more golden eggs.
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Too much greed results in nothing
There was once a house that was overrun with Mice. A Cat heard of this, and said to herself, "That’s the place for me," and off she went and took up her quarters in the house, and caught the Mice one by one and ate them. At last the Mice could stand it no longer, and they determined to take to their holes and stay there. "That’s awkward," said the Cat to herself: "the only thing to do is to coax them out by a trick." So she considered a while, and then climbed up the wall and let herself hang down by her hind legs from a peg, and pretended to be dead. By and by a Mouse peeped out and saw the Cat hanging there. "Aha!" it cried, "you’re very clever, madam, no doubt: but you may turn yourself into a bag of meal hanging there, if you like, yet you won’t catch us coming anywhere near you
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If you are wise you won’t be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous
A DOG used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace. One day an old hound said to him: Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to
avoid you as an ill mannered dog
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Notoriety is often mistaken for fame
There was once a charcoal burner who lived and worked by himself. A fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighborhood; and the charcoal burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was an agreeable sort of fellow, asked him if he would come and share his house. "We shall get to know one another better that way," he said, "and, besides, our household expenses would be diminished." The fuller thanked him, but replied, I couldn’t think of it, sir. Why, everything I take such pains to whiten would be blackened in no time by your charcoal