Lafontaine Laitiere Pot

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(La Laitière et le Pot au lait) Perrette, carrying milk to market, builds in her mind a fortune of eggs, chickens, a pig, a cow and calf, until, leaping for joy at the thought, she spills the milk and loses all. Moral: do not build on profits not yet in hand. — Jean de La Fontaine