The Goose with the Golden Eggs
Moral: 'Much wants more and loses all.' Source of the idiom 'kill the goose that lays the golden egg.'
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From Aesop's Fables by Aesop
A greedy owner kills the goose to seize all the gold at once and ends up with nothing, warning against destroying steady blessings through avarice.
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