255.The Oaks and Sir Success
THE OAKS presented a complaint to Sir Success, saying,
“We bear for no purpose the burden of life, as of all the trees that grow we are the most continually in peril of the axe.”
Sir Success made answer:
“You have only to thank yourselves for the misfortunes to which you are exposed: for if you did not make such excellent pillars and posts, and prove yourselves so serviceable to the carpenters and the farmers, the axe would not so frequently be laid to your roots.”
❖ A sad side of shown and unguarded excellence is abuse stemming from it.
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