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314.The Traveller and Fortune
A TRAVELER wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome with fatigue, on the very brink of a deep well. Just as he was about to fall into the water, Dame fortune, it is said, appeared to him and waking him from his slumber thus addressed him:
“Good Sir, pray wake up: for if you fall into the well, the blame will be thrown on me, and I shall get an ill name among mortals; for I find that men are sure to impute their calamities to me, however much by their own folly they have really brought them on themselves.”
❖ Everyone hopes more or less to be the master of his own fate.