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The Wolf and the Lamb

A LAMB, pursued by a Wolf, fled into the temple.

"The priest will catch you and sacrifice you," said the Wolf, "if you remain there."

"It is just as well to be sacrificed by the priest as to be eaten by you," said the Lamb.

"My friend," said the Wolf, "it pains me to see you considering so great a question from a purely selfish point of view. It is not just as well for me."

		Of course that the coffee is an slow poison; I have been drinking it for the last forty years. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire