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<h2>THE OLIVE-TREE AND THE FIG-TREE</h2>
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<p>An Olive-tree taunted a Fig-tree with the loss of her leaves at
a certain season of the year. "You," she said, "lose your leaves
every autumn, and are bare till the spring: whereas I, as you see,
remain green and flourishing all the year round." Soon afterwards
there came a heavy fall of snow, which settled on the leaves of the
Olive so that she bent and broke under the weight; but the flakes
fell harmlessly through the bare branches of the Fig, which
survived to bear many another crop.</p>
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