The Oak and the Woodcutters 
    
    
      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, "I 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."  
    
    
    	Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.  
    


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