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What is your opinion of the ant’s principles? - English Honeydew

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What is your opinion of the ant’s principles?

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Ant's principles are completely right. Those who do not think ahead can never succeed in life. And if they are helped again and again they will never learn a lesson.

Ant's are having the ability to foresee and that is why they save for the future. They do not borrow from anybody and even do not lend to anyone.

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Chapter 1.2: The Ant and the Cricket - Working with the Poem [Page 23]

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NCERT English - Honeydew Class 8
Chapter 1.2 The Ant and the Cricket
Working with the Poem | Q 2.2 | Page 23

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