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    Two travelers rested under a plane tree to escape the hot sun. One complained that the plane tree was useless because it bore no fruit and dropped leaves everywhere. The plane tree responded that it was ungrateful of the travelers to call it useless when they were enjoying its shade. The tree reminded them that people often take their blessings for granted.

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    Two travelers rested under a plane tree to escape the hot sun. One complained that the plane tree was useless because it bore no fruit and dropped leaves everywhere. The plane tree responded that it was ungrateful of the travelers to call it useless when they were enjoying its shade. The tree reminded them that people often take their blessings for granted.

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    The Plane Tree

    by Aesop

    Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a


    widespreading tree to rest. As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves,
    they saw that it was a Plane Tree.
    "How useless is the Plane!" said one of them. "It bears no fruit whatever, and
    only serves to litter the ground with leaves."

    "Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree. "You lie here in my
    cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless! Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do
    men receive their blessings!"
    Our best blessings are often the least appreciated.

    The Plane Tree was featured as The Short Story of the Day on Sun, Jan 01, 2012

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