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"summary": "\"The Fox and the Stork\" is one of Aesop's most satisfying fables about pride meeting its match. When a mocking Fox invites the Stork to dinner and serves soup in a shallow dish — impossible for the Stork's long bill — the humiliation seems complete. But the calm, unruffled Stork quietly plans his revenge, hosting the Fox for a fish dinner served in a tall, narrow jar. What follows is a perfectly balanced lesson in consequences, where the trickster discovers exactly how his neighbor felt.",
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"The Fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the Stork, at whose odd appearance he was always laughing.",
"“You must come and dine with me today,” he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The Stork gladly accepted the invitation and arrived in good time and with a very good appetite.",
"For dinner the Fox served soup. But it was set out in a very shallow dish, and all the Stork could do was to wet the very tip of his bill. Not a drop of soup could he get. But the Fox lapped it up easily, and, to increase the disappointment of the Stork, made a great show of enjoyment.",
"The hungry Stork was much displeased at the trick, but he was a calm, even-tempered fellow and saw no good in flying into a rage. Instead, not long afterward, he invited the Fox to dine with him in turn. The Fox arrived promptly at the time that had been set, and the Stork served a fish dinner that had a very appetizing smell. But it was served in a tall jar with a very narrow neck. The Stork could easily get at the food with his long bill, but all the Fox could do was to lick the outside of the jar, and sniff at the delicious odor. And when the Fox lost his temper, the Stork said calmly: “Do not play tricks on your neighbors unless you can stand the same treatment yourself.”",
"Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have shaped moral literature across the world for over two millennia. \"The Fox and the Stork\" is among his most enduring works, notable for how it delivers its moral — treat others as you wish to be treated — entirely through action rather than preaching. The fable appears in collections spanning ancient Greek manuscripts to La Fontaine's celebrated 17th-century retellings."
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