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The Golden Egg: Think Before You Act

The farmer had a goose that laid a golden egg each day, providing for his needs. Growing greedy, the farmer decided to cut open the goose to get all the eggs at once, killing the goose in the process. When he did, he found the goose's stomach empty. The farmer realized his foolish mistake in killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. This classic story gives the idiom "kill not the goose that lays the golden egg."

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The Golden Egg: Think Before You Act

The farmer had a goose that laid a golden egg each day, providing for his needs. Growing greedy, the farmer decided to cut open the goose to get all the eggs at once, killing the goose in the process. When he did, he found the goose's stomach empty. The farmer realized his foolish mistake in killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. This classic story gives the idiom "kill not the goose that lays the golden egg."

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The golden egg

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Once upon a time, a farmer had a goose that laid a golden egg every day. The egg provided
enough money for the farmer and his wife for their day-to-day needs. The farmer and his wife
were happy for a long time. But one day, the farmer got an idea and thought, “Why should I
take just one egg a day? Why can’t I take all of them at once and make a lot of money?”

The foolish farmer’s wife also agreed and decided to cut the goose’s stomach for the eggs. As
soon as they killed the bird and opened the goose’s stomach, to find nothing but guts and
blood. The farmer, realizing his foolish mistake, cries over the lost resource!

The English idiom “kill not the goose that lays the golden egg” was also derived from this
classic story.

Moral

Think before you act.

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