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A fox, almost with hunger dying, / Some grapes upon a trellis spying, / To all appearance ripe, clad in / Their tempting russet skin, / Most gladly would have eat them; / But since he could not get them, / So far above his reach the vine -- / 'They're sour,' he said; 'such grapes as these, / The dogs may eat them if they please!'
Did he not better than to whine? [1]
[1]: Aesop: Phaedrus, IV. 3.