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The Cock and The Jewel
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A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he spied something shinning within the straw.
"Ho! ho!" said he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw.
What did it turn out to be but a precious jewel that had somehow been lost in the yard.
"You may be a treasure," stated Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."
Moral of the story: Precious things are for those that can prize them.
What one person may consider a prize, someone else may consider useless. Although you may think what someone else owns is like trash to you, to them it may be the greatest possession of all.
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