The Ass and the Grasshoppers

Fables by Aesop

A STATESMAN heard some Labourers singing at their work, and wishing
to be happy too, asked them what made them so.

"Honesty," replied the Labourers.

So the Statesman resolved that he too would be honest, and the
result was that he died of want.

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