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MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two
women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well
advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man
younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited
her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The younger, on
the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was
equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find. Thus it
came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had
not a hair left on his head.
Moral:
Those who seek to
please everybody please nobody
The Man and His Two Sweethearts
Fable
A Fable
by
Aesop |
