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AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden
Image, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along, the
crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass, thinking
that they bowed their heads in token of respect for himself,
bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refused to move
another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his whip
lustily about his shoulders and said, "O you perverse dull-head! it
is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass."
Moral:
They are not wise who
give to themselves the credit due to others
The Ass Carrying the Image
Fable
A Fable
by
Aesop
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