One winter's day when the wind was blowing a gale and the snow was falling fast, a goatherd drove his goats, all white with snow, into a near-by cave for shelter. To his surprise, the goatherd found the cave already occupied by a herd of wild goats more numerous than his own.
The greedy man, thinking to secure them all, left his own goats to take care of themselves while he threw the branches which he had brought for them to the wild goats for fodder.
When the weather cleared, alas, the goatherd found that his own goats had perished from hunger, while the wild goats were off and away to the hills and woods. The foolish man returned a laughingstock to his neighbors, for he not only had failed to gain the herd of wild goats, but he had lost his own.
Application: They who neglect old friends for the sake of new ones are rightly served when they lose both.
-Aesop's Fables
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