Monday, August 15, 2011

The cock and the Jewel


A Cock, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a
precious stone and exclaimed: "If your owner had found thee, and
not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy
first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would
rather have one barley corn than all the jewels in the world."



Moral: The ignorant despise what is precious only because they cannot understand it.

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