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Quotation from Aesop's Fables by Aesop
“WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him.”
Aesop's Fables, The Wolf And The Lamb, trans. George Fyler Townsend (1867)
Opening of the fable on power and false accusation.
Citation: "WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf’s right to eat him." — Aesop, Aesop's Fables, The Wolf And The Lamb, trans. George Fyler Townsend (1867). (id aesops-fables-q1)
Portrait: The Fox and the Grapes - Project Gutenberg etext 19994, Illustration by Milo Winter., Public domain.
