“While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.”

Alleghany Corp. v. Breswick & Co., 353 U.S. 151, 170 (1957).
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