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44.Dead men tell no tales
A fox and a monkey, as they journeyed together, disputed at great length about the nobility of their lineage. When they reached a certain place on the road, the monkey fixed his gaze on it and uttered a groan. The fox asked what was wrong with him. The monkey pointed to some tombs that stood there.
“Don’t you expect me to mourn,” he said, “when I behold the sepulchres of the slaves and freedmen of my ancestors?”
“Lie away to your heart’s content,” answered the fox. “They won’t any of them rise up to contradict you.”
❖ Certain impostors never boast more loudly than when there is no one to expose them.