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jhash
jhash
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What is the moral lesson of The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs?

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Posted by jhash on Wednesday September 23, 2009 at 8:21 PM and tagged with golden eggs, goose, literature.

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  1. krishna-agrawala
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    The moral of the story Goose That Laid Golden Egg is the folly of being over greedy which leads to destruction of the source of benefits to a person. In this story the owner of the goose that lays golden egg is not satisfied with with just the golden eggs that the goose lays from time to time. He wants to get a lot more gold, a lot more quickly, and in the hope getting at once all the store of gold, that he believe, the goose has within its body, kills the goose. But he finds no gold. This way he is also deprived of the golden eggs that the goose was capable of laying in future.

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    Posted by krishna-agrawala on Wednesday September 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM