The Mice in Council
Moral: 'It is easy to propose impossible remedies.' Origin of the idiom 'to bell the cat.'
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From Aesop's Fables by Aesop
Mice agree a bell on the cat would save them, but none dare to attach it, exposing the gap between proposing plans and executing them.
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