Poking about in a dunghill, the Cock had found a pearl and spoke: “Why would I want it? What a pointless thing! Isn’t it silly, that it is so high appreciated? I really would be much gladder to have a barley grain: though it is not so showy, but then nourishing”.
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Ignoramuses judge precisely so: if they do not have a good understanding of something, that is a trifle for them.
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