The Fox and the Grapes

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The Fox and the Grapes
        One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard
        till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which
        had been trained over a lofty branch.
        "Just the thing to quench
        my thirst," quoth he.
        Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and
        a jump, and just missed the bunch.
        Turning round again with a
        One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success.
        Again
        and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to
        give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I
        am sure they are sour."
        It is easy to despise what you cannot get.