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Aesop's Fables: Sir Roger L'Estrange (1692)

136. A PEACH, AN APPLE, AND A BLACKBERRY (Perry 213)

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.
THE MORAL OF THE TWO FABLES ABOVE. 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.


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