The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs
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title:
The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs
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"The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs" is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 87 in the Perry Index, a story that also has a number of Eastern analogues. Many other stories contain geese that lay golden eggs, though certain versions change them for hens or other birds that lay golden eggs. The tale has given rise to the idiom 'killing the goose that lays the golden eggs', which refers to the short-sighted destruction of a valuable resource, or to an unprofitable action motivated by greed.
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Aesop's Fable
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_that_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs
date created:
2006-03-20T16:30:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T21:42:42Z
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