Lafontaine Corbeau Renard

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(Le Corbeau et le Renard) A crow perched with cheese in its beak is flattered by a fox praising its beauty and voice. It opens its beak to sing, drops the cheese, and the fox seizes it, observing that every flatterer lives at the expense of those who heed him. Moral: flatterers feed on the vanity of their listeners. — Jean de La Fontaine