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The Ass and his Purchaser.

A man wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that heshould try him before he bought him. He took the Ass home, and put himin the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which he left all theothers, and joined himself at once to the most idle and the greatesteater of them all. The man put a halter on him, and led him back to hisowner, saying: "I do not need a trial; I know that he will be just suchanother as the one whom he chose for his companion."

A man is known by the company he keeps.

From Aesop's Fables