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FableNº 25

The Big Fish and the Small

A fisherman drew his net up out of the sea. The big fish he caught and spread out on the ground; but the little ones slipped through the mesh and got away into the sea.

People of modest standing slip out of danger easily; the great and famous rarely do.
Moral

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