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FableNº 69

The Frog Doctor and the Fox

One day a frog in a marsh kept calling out to all the animals, "I am a doctor, and I know the remedies." A fox, hearing her, cried out, "How will you cure others, you who limp and cannot cure yourself?"

Those who have never mastered a subject cannot teach it to others.
Moral

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