The Plane Tree

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 Author: Aesop


 

Walking in the midday sun, two travelers looked for a place to rest in the shade of a spreading tree. They noticed it was a plane tree as they lay there looking up among the pleasant leaves.

One of them exclaimed, "How useless is the Plane!" It produces absolutely no fruit and merely leaves a trail of leaf litter on the ground. ".

From the Plane Tree, a voice cried out, "Ungrateful creatures!" Men take their benefits ungratefully! You are lying in my cooling shade and you claim that I am of no use.

Moral

Most of the time, our greatest blessings go unnoticed.


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