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The leopard found nothing in it but a leopard. Each was now anxious to make the test himself and get at the straight truth. 0000159635 00000 n
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He said that anybody but a near-sighted fool could see that there was nothing in the hole but an elephant. 0000153950 00000 n
It is impossible to talk about the single story without talking about power. Addison on the Persuasive Power of Fables "[A]mong all the different ways of giving counsel, I think the finest, and that which pleases the most universally, is fable, in whatsoever shape it appears.If we consider this way of instructing or giving advice, it excels all others, because it is the least shocking, and the least subject to those exceptions which I have before mentioned. 0000164552 00000 n
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He said there had never been anything as beautiful as this before, and probably wasn't now.
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Create a library and add your favorite stories. Fables are stories that have been told throughout past generations, trickling down to the present to deliver important lessons about life, nature, love, friendship, and being a … 0000159795 00000 n
The animals felt relieved and grateful, and asked him to go at once--which he did. The ass was not, troubled; he was calm, and said there was one way to find out who was in the right, himself or the cat: he would go and look in that hole, and come back and tell what he found there. 0000152898 00000 n
That excited them almost to a frenzy, and they said they would give the world to see it. What lesson about the nature of perception is contained in "A Fable," by American humorist Mark Twain? 0000165373 00000 n
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Then the bear asked: This filled them with admiration and uncertainty, and they were more excited than ever.