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The Crab and Its Mother

By AESOP

A CRAB said to her son, "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far more becoming to go straight forward."

The young Crab replied: "Quite true, dear Mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I will promise to walk in it."

The Mother tried in vain, and submitted without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.

 

Example is more powerful than precept.
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