Nothing goes nearer a Man in his Misfortunes, than to find himself undone by his own folly, or but any way accessary to his own Ruin.
Source: L'Estrange 46.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
L'Estrange: An Ax and a Forest
A Carpenter that had got the iron Work of an Ax already, went to the next Forest to beg only so much Wood as would make a Handle to’t. The Matter seem’d so small, that the Request was easily granted; but when the timber Trees came to find that the whole Wood was to be cut down by the Help of this Handle; There’s no Remedy, they cry’d, but Patience, when People are undone by their own Folly.
Nothing goes nearer a Man in his Misfortunes, than to find himself undone by his own folly, or but any way accessary to his own Ruin.
Source: L'Estrange 46.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Crane images.
Nothing goes nearer a Man in his Misfortunes, than to find himself undone by his own folly, or but any way accessary to his own Ruin.
Source: L'Estrange 46.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Crane images.
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