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Do not promise more than you can perform.

THE DOGS AND THE HIDES

Once upon a time a number of Dogs, who were famished with hunger,

saw some Hides steeping in a river, but couldn't get at them

because the water was too deep. So they put their heads together,

and decided to drink away at the river till it was shallow enough

for them to reach the Hides. But long before that happened they

burst themselves with drinking.

THE LION, THE FOX, AND THE ASS