人要懂得知足常樂的道理，如果貪得無厭殺雞取卵，我們就會失去已經擁有的東西。這是本篇文章所折射出來的一個人生道理...
Lay golden goose
One morning a countryman went to his goose's nest, and saw a yellow and glitteringegg there.He took the egg home. To his delight, he found that it was an egg of pure gold.
Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs.
The countryman became more and more greedy. He wanted to get all the gold at once, so he killed the goose, when he looked inside, he found nothing in its body.
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生金蛋的鵝
一天早晨，農夫去他的鵝窩看見一隻金燦燦的蛋，他帶回家後發現這是一隻純金蛋。每天早晨同樣的事情都會發生，他也靠賣金蛋逐漸變得富足起來。
農夫變得越來越貪婪，他想立刻得到鵝肚子中所有的金蛋。於是他殺死了鵝，但是，在鵝肚中他什麼也沒找到。