A Fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, “You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.” The Bramble answered: “You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, traditionally believed to have lived around the 6th century BCE, and widely regarded as the father of the fable as a literary form. "The Fir-Tree and the Bramble" is one of his most concise moral tales, distilling its lesson into a single exchange — a format Aesop mastered to deliver wisdom with memorable economy.
