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This is another Aesop’s Fables – The Fox and The Grapes. The Fox and the Grapes is one of Aesop’s fables, numbered 15 in the Perry Index. The narration is concise and subsequent retellings have often been equally so. The story concerns a fox that tries to eat grapes from a vine but cannot reach them. Rather than admit defeat, he states they are undesirable. Listen to Aesop’s Fables – The Fox and The Grapes below along with the text.
Aesop’s Fables – The Fox and The Grapes: A hungry Fox saw some fine bunches of Grapes hanging from a vine that was trained along a high trellis, and did his best to reach them by jumping as high as he could into the air. But it was all in vain, for they were just out of reach: so he gave up trying, and walked away with an air of dignity and unconcern, remarking, “I thought those Grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.”
Moral Lesson from Aesop’s Fables – The Fox and The Grapes
‘Tis matter of skill and address, when a man cannot honestly compass what he would be at, to appear easy and indifferent upon all repulses and disappointments.
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