All covet, all lose; which may serve for a Reproof to those that govern their Lives by Fancy and Appetite, without consulting the Honour and Justice of the Case.
Source: L'Estrange 6
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Crane images.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
L'Estrange: A Dog and a Shadow
As a dog was crossing a River with a Morsel of good Flesh in his Mouth, he saw (as he thought) another Dog under the Water upon the very same Adventure. He never consider’d that the one was only the Image of the other, but out of a Greediness to get both, he chops at the Shadow, and loses the Substance.
All covet, all lose; which may serve for a Reproof to those that govern their Lives by Fancy and Appetite, without consulting the Honour and Justice of the Case.
Source: L'Estrange 6
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Crane images.
All covet, all lose; which may serve for a Reproof to those that govern their Lives by Fancy and Appetite, without consulting the Honour and Justice of the Case.
Source: L'Estrange 6
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Crane images.
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