a moral story on title greed brings ruin
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Once there was a milkman who was very worried for his daughter. His daughter was very beautiful but she always used to live in her dream world. Once she was carrying a basket of mangoes to sell in the town. She became lost in her imaginary world. She started to think about the money which she would get after selling the mangoes. Again she imagined that after selling the milk she would buy hens from them. By selling the eggs she would buy goats. By selling the goats she would buy cows and buffaloes who would give milk and by selling more and more milk she would become the richest person in the world. In such excitement, she started to clap her hands and while doing so the mangoes fell on the ground. some of them got spoil, some got crushed and some roll down the road. The mangoes and the dream both got spoil. The milkmaid became very sad and began to weep.
"Once there lived a farmer who had 4 ducks. The duck's egg was in great demand in his surroundings. His ducks laid 2-3 eggs per day. He used to sell all the eggs and earn money. As the demand was more, all the neighboring people visited the farmer to buy more eggs. He sold the egg at a very high price.
One fine night as the farmer was approaching to sleep, he immediately thought that instead of waiting for the duck to lay eggs, he will take all the eggs by cutting the duck's stomach open.
As per his plan, in the next morning, he woke up early and cut opened the stomach of all the four ducks he had. He found that no eggs were present in the stomach and became astonished. As the duck's stomach was injured with the knife, all the duck died one after another. As a result of which the farmer now had no ducks with him.
This incident shows that if a person becomes greedy, it will ruin his/her entire life."