A Dove shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched. A Crow hearing her, said: “My good friend, cease from this unseasonable boasting. The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–560 BCE, whose fables have been retold across cultures for over two millennia. His stories are celebrated for distilling sharp moral truths into brief, memorable animal encounters. "The Dove and the Crow" is a particularly concise example of his style, delivering its lesson in a single, quietly devastating exchange.
