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FableNº 321

The Shorn Sheep

A sheep that was being clumsily shorn said to the one who was shearing her, "If it's my wool you want, cut higher; if on the contrary it's my flesh you're after, kill me once and for all, and stop torturing me bit by bit."

*Incompetence turns ordinary work into needless suffering.
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