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Title: The Gnat And The Bull Author: Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) [More Titles by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables)] A Gnat that had been buzzing about the head of a Bull, at length settling himself down upon his horn, begged his pardon for incommoding him; "but if," says he, "my weight at all inconveniences you, pray say so, and I will be off in a moment." "Oh, never trouble your head about that," says the Bull, "for 'tis all one to me whether you go or stay; and, to say the truth, I did not know you were there." The smaller the Mind the greater the Conceit. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |