# Aesop Fable?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aesop-fable/188794
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 16, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aesop-fable/188794 "2003-07-16T02:23:40Z")
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#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aesop-fable/188794/1 "2003-07-16T02:23:40Z")

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Is there a fable by Aesop, or by anyone else where the moral of the story is “the most important move is not the last move you make but the first”?