Aesop's Fables: The Fox and the Serpent

Aesop's Fables
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There was a fig tree at the border of a road, and a fox saw next to it a sleepy serpent.

Envying that so long body, and thinking about that he could equal it, the fox lay down next to the serpent and tried to stretch whatever he could.

He did so much effort , that finally he burst.

Do not imitate to the greatest, if you do not yet have the conditions to do it.