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A HEN finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life. A Swallow, observing what she had done, said, “You silly creature! Why have you hatched these vipers which, when they shall have grown, will inflict injury on all, beginning with yourself?“ A good natured man will often assist his own destruction.– Aesop’s Fables, translated by George Fyler Townsend

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A HEN finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life. A Swallow, observing what she had done, said, “You silly creature! Why have you hatched these vipers which, when they shall have grown, will inflict injury on all, beginning with yourself?“ A good natured man will often assist his own destruction.– Aesop’s Fables, translated by George Fyler Townsend