A crow sat idly on a tree branch all day. A small rabbit saw him and asked, "May I sit like you and do nothing all day long?"
The crow replied, "Certainly, why not?"
So the rabbit settled on the ground beneath the crow and rested. Suddenly, a fox appeared, pounced on the rabbit, and devoured it.
Moral: To sit and do nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.
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