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The Fox and The Crow

A Fox once saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in its beak and settle on a branch of a tree.

"That's for me, as I am a Fox," said Master Reynard, and he walked up to the foot of the tree.

"Good day, Mistress Crow," he cried. "How well you are looking today: how glossy your feathers; how bright your eye. I feel sure your voice must surpass that of other birds, just as your figure does; let me hear but one song from you that I may greet you as the Queen of Birds."

The Crow lifted up her head and began to caw her best, but the moment she opened her mouth the piece of cheese fell to the ground, only to be snapped up by Master Fox.

"That will do," said he. "That was all I wanted. In exchange for your cheese I will give you a piece of advice for the future: "Do not trust flatterers."

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“The Fox and the Crow” is one of the best fables I have ever known. It was written by Russian fabulist Ivan Andreyevich Krylov (1769-1844). This famous fable was translated and prosed from verse into different languages. The author satirizes the human frailty. I think this fable is a good example of a real situation in our life, where sometimes we become a victim of a “Fox”. We should beware of flatterers. People who say nice things about you as a trick are not your friend. They just expect to get something from you.

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Now we need this fable.Recently,trickeries has increased.Please doubt at first,when someone who you dont know heap you with praises.Lets recall this fable!

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I think this story that to learn us about personality. We shouldn’t believe the flatterers. We shouldn’t feel self-satisfied. Don’t trust about what we did…I gave the story 4 stars.
By Mark 15 Vietnamese

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This storie is a good lesson that, how we can not trust in everthing that poeple say, think or see. including ourselves, it means tha we should analyze everthing all time, we should use the neurons and not only the feelings.in my conclution we can not trust blindly.

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This fable is a great advice for our time. In nowadays we receive a lot of publicity sweepings that affect our time and our way of life. I think this fable its not only to what we hear, its for what we receive of information, and select what is good or not.

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As the Master Fox says we must not trust flatterers.We must not forget that the person who praises us is a forger,a liar in a great probability ,if we dont believe that we are really beautiful or we are not thought to be so much beautiful by others.Here,the crow already knew that she was not thought to be pretty by others,but she was too fool to trust in the Foxs words.

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I learned that people should know themselves by this fable and when someone told me a goodthing about my appearance or my life, I think myself.
This story told me something that I have to think one more before I do something.

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I learned people should know themselves by this fable. And, when someone told me a goodthing about my appearance or my life, I have to think one more. Always be careful!! We have to be carevful that we believe someone easily.

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I think this story give many things to us. First we should notice when someone said good things that`s "Sweet talk" or " Rear advice".
Praise always make us happy, but I should find hidden meaning.
We also don`t trust too much person especially who like other people`s things. They want get someone`s thing, so always cheat them.
However many good people live in the word. We need distinguish them for happy life^^
- Soo -

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It is true that we shouldnt trust fatterers. The story has a good moral but, the story are not this funny and could be work a little bit more. In French we have one to, and its better. The story has more sens and the moral to.

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This story abour a fos and a crow is find of funnu. It gives us an illustrated example of this moral. His moral is to not do what a flatterer ask us. Miss Crow did exactly the opposite of that. In consequence, she lost her piece of cheese!!!

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I think that The fox and the crow is a very good fable. It show at people that It have a lot of bad people in the world. It also show that some people are capable to do anything to have what they want. I like this little story because It give a good image of this reality.

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I think the fable was true and a very strate to the
piont one too. You really can t trust people that
are overly nice to you its all ways to good to be
true. The sad thing about the story is that the crow
want through some work to get that peace of
chesse and all want away buy on clever fox.

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Some people believe in others because they fall for sweet talks. This fable is also an example of hypocrisy. We have to be cautious, not only with strangers but also with people we know. Not every one you trust is your friend. And not every you may want to believe in wants your trust for good.

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to me this fable is entartainig somone while making us laughed because the things is happening between the animals it was an analogy pscologially but still mssing because may be some childen can read this fable but later on he or she or they cannot understand what is going on between the human beings they just suppose that these things can only occur between the people thats all but generally it is good to make the event occuring concreet

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In this fable "The Fox and The Crow", we can learn good lessons. First one, do not show off your property because you would be a target from swindlers. Second, have a doubt about sweet words. Maybe there is a negative intent behind them.

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In my opinion is a great fable, because show us how a fox had a objetive there is ate the cheese who had the crow, and the fox manipulate the crow by flatterers and the crow feels that the fox is a great person and the moment in she openned her mouth fell the piece of cheese, the fox he made it what he want, and show the crow that "Do not trust flatterers."

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