THE WOODCUTTER cut down a Mountain Oak and split it in pieces, making wedges of its own branches for dividing the trunk. The Oak said with a sigh, โ€œI do not care about the blows of the axe aimed at my roots, but I do grieve at being torn in pieces by these wedges made from my own branches.โ€

Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21/21-h/21-h.htm

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