A Hound started a Hare from his lair, but after a long run, gave up the chase. A goat-herd seeing him stop, mocked him, saying “The little one is the best runner of the two.” The Hound replied, “You do not see the difference between us: I was only running for a dinner, but he for his life.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around the 6th century BCE, whose fables have shaped moral literature across the world for over two millennia. "The Hare and the Hound" is one of his most concise works, delivering its lesson in a single exchange — a hallmark of Aesop's razor-sharp style. His stories were passed down orally before being compiled into the collections we know today.
