Don’t be avaricious. If you are too greedy you will lose even what you already have. The dog in the fable was carrying a piece of meat across the bridge. He glanced down into the water and saw what he took to be another dog with a piece of meat in its mouth. He opened his jaws to snatch at the meat in the reflection – and his own piece fell into the water.
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