Every thing would be thought greater in the World than it is; and the Root of it is this, that it first thinks itself so.
Source: L'Estrange 136.
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
L'Estrange: A Peach, an Apple and a Blackberry
There happen’d a Controversy once betwixt a Peach and an Apple, which was the fairer Fruit of the two. They were so loud in their Discourse, that a Blackberry, from the next Hedge, over-heard them. Come (says the Blackberry) we are all Friends, and pray let’s have no jangling among ourselves.
Every thing would be thought greater in the World than it is; and the Root of it is this, that it first thinks itself so.
Source: L'Estrange 136.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Medici Aesop images.
Every thing would be thought greater in the World than it is; and the Root of it is this, that it first thinks itself so.
Source: L'Estrange 136.
Click here for a SLIDESHOW of all the Medici Aesop images.
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