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"summary": "\"The Goose and the Golden Egg\" is a short fable by Aesop about a Countryman whose goose lays one perfect golden egg each day. As his wealth grows, so does his impatience — one egg a day is never enough. Convinced a fortune lies hidden inside the goose, he makes a desperate and irreversible choice. This sharp little story captures how greed can blind a person to the value of what they already have, turning abundance into nothing.",
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"There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.",
"The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.",
"Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open. But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.",
"Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have been retold across cultures for over two millennia. \"The Goose and the Golden Egg\" is one of his most enduring moral tales, and the phrase it inspired — \"killing the goose that lays the golden eggs\" — remains a common expression in everyday language worldwide."
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