The fox
& the leopard

THE LEOPARD & THE FOX

“The Leopard one day, in hearing of the Fox, was very loud in the praise of his own beautifully spotted skin. The Fox thereupon told him that, handsome as he might be, he considered that he himself was yet a great deal handsomer. ‘Your beauty is of the body,’ said the Fox; ‘Mine is of the mind.’” (44)

Beauty is skin deep.

From AESOP’S ILLUSTRATED FABLES.
Original illustrations by Walter Crane, Ernest Griset, and Arthur Rackham.