Don’t get it right, just get it written.

Sourced, From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time

“The Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing”, The New Yorker (29 April 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). The moral is ironic with respect to the fable, in which sheep do insufficient research before writing about wolves, resulting in the sheep being easy prey.

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