THE EAGLE AND THE ARROW
A hunter once shot an eagle. Severely wounded, the bird managed to fly to his home. When he arrived he glanced at the cruel arrow in his breast. It was winged with one of his own feathers.
“Oh,” he cried, “to think I have been murdered by an arrow that I helped to make!”
—Æsop.
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| learn ing | in vite | har vest | boil | |||
| wis dom | in vi ta tion | this tle | soil | |||
| cloth | com pa ny | whis tle | toil | |||
| clothes | pea cock | ex pect | toi let | |||
| be gan | how ev er | in deed | suit |
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Learning is not wisdom any more than cloth is clothes.
—French.