A cock, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: “If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around the 6th century BCE, whose fables have been retold across cultures for over two thousand years. "The Cock and the Jewel" is one of his most concise moral tales, distilling its lesson — that worth depends on the needs of the beholder — into just a few sharp lines.
