"Pray do not grieve so; but go and……" — Aesop
"Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it."
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170 Quotes by Aesop
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
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