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The Oak and the Woodcutters
Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.
Updated On: 4/6/2007
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THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk. The Oak said with a sigh, "I do not care about the blows of the axe aimed at my roots, but I do grieve at being torn in pieces by these wedges made from my own branches."
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