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寓言故事|The Man and his Goose

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SEE these valuable golden eggs, said a Man that owned a Goose.
Surely a Goose which can lay such eggs as those must have a gold
mine inside her.
So he killed the Goose and cut her open, but found that she was
just like any other goose. Moreover1, on examining the eggs that
she had laid he found they were just like any other eggs.


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