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One scorching summer afternoon, a famished fox was roaming through the vineyards. As he walked, he spotted a cluster of plump, ripe grapes hanging high from a trellis. The grapes looked delicious, and the fox’s mouth watered at the thought of tasting them.

Determined to reach them, the fox leapt with all his might, but the grapes remained tantalizingly out of reach. He tried again and again, stretching his body as far as he could, but he still could not grasp the fruit. After many attempts, the fox was tired and frustrated.

He sat down under the vine and looked at the grapes with a scowl. “Those grapes are probably sour and not worth the effort,” he said dismissively. “I don’t need them anyway.”

With that, the fox walked away, trying to convince himself that he hadn’t really wanted the grapes.

The moral of the story: It’s easy to criticize what you cannot obtain.

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One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."

It is easy to despise what you cannot get.

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