In his eagerness to kill it, he hit himself a smart slap.
But the Fly escaped, and said to him in derision,
"You tried to kill me for just one little bite; what will you do to yourself now, for the heavy smack you have just given yourself?"
"Oh, for that blow I bear no grudge,"
he replied,
"for I never intended myself any harm; but as for you, you contemptible insect, who live by sucking human blood, I'd have borne a good deal more than that for the satisfaction of dashing the life out of you!"
From Aesop story
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