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Title: The Madman Who Sold Wisdom Author: Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables) [More Titles by Aesop (author of Aesop's Fables)] A Madman once set himself up in the market place, and with loud cries announced that he would sell Wisdom. The people at once crowded about him, and some gave him gold for his wares, but they each got only a blow on the ear and a bunch of thread, and were well laughed at by their companions. One of them, however, took it more seriously than the others, and asked a wise sage what it meant. "It means," said the sage, "that if one would not be hurt by a Madman, he must put a bunch of thread over his ears." So the Madman was really selling Wisdom. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |