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The Fir Tree and The Bramble

A Fir Tree boasted to the Bramble: "You have no use, while I am used in construction everywhere." The Bramble answered: "To be used, you have to be cut down. Think on that and have reason to wish you grew up as a Bramble."

Townsend version

A Fir Tree said boastingly to the Bramble, "You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses." The Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir Tree."

Moral

Better poverty without care, than riches with.

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