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FableNº 43

The Fox and the Mask

A fox slipped into an actor's house and rummaged through all his belongings one by one. Among other things she found a finely crafted mask of a head. She took it in her paws and said, "Oh, what a head! A pity it has no brains."

*A splendid body cannot compensate for poor judgement.
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