Like Aesop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.
Robert Burton
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Please, catch for us the foxes in the vineyard... the little foxes.
Aaron Weiss
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
Davy Crockett
This is a Tale about a tail — a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin.
Beatrix Potter
Aesop's Fly, sitting on the axle of the chariot, has been much laughed at for exclaiming: What a dust I do raise!
Thomas Carlyle
This writing distinctly about the kite seems to be my destiny, because among the first recollections of my infancy, it seemed to me that, as I was in my cradle, a kite came to me and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me several times with its tail inside my lips.
Leonardo da Vinci
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