Aesop's Fables: First Classics Edition

Aesop's Fable's: First Classics Edition

Abridged by Rochelle Larkin

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              “Vengeance may be worse than the deed that provoked it.” That is one of many morals from the numerous Aesop’s Fables, which are stories that often have a moral, or a lesson of value. The original fables were written by a man named Aesop, who was often invited to tell his stories to kings and other nobles as entertainment. One such fable in Aesop’s Fables: First Classics Edition, by Rochelle Larkin, involved a farmer, his wife, and a goose that laid golden eggs, but after becoming steadily richer every day, the farmer and his wife became greedy and impatient, and cut the goose open to receive all of the gold at once; killing the goose and ending the supply of gold. The moral of that particular fable is: “Much wants more and loses all.”