"If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning."
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Aesop, in "The Fox in the Well", Fable CLVI, in Fables of Aesop (1792), as translated by Samuel Croxall
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