Aesop's Fables: The Goose with the Golden Eggs
One day a
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going to the nest of his
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found there an egg all yellow and
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. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played upon him. But he took it home on second thoughts, and soon found to his delight that it was an egg of pure
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.
Every
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the same thing occurred, and he soon became
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by selling his eggs. As he grew rich he grew
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; and thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find
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.
Greed often reaches itself.