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    Aesop's Fables
    Aesop's Fables
    Aesop's Fables
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    Aesop's Fables

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    Aesop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fame is all the more deserved because he never deserved it. The firm foundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, that characterise all the Fables, belong not him but to humanity. In the earliest human history whatever is authentic is universal: and whatever is universal is anonymous. In such cases there is always some central man who had first the trouble of collecting them, and afterwards the fame of creating them. He had the fame; and, on the whole, he earned the fame. There must have been something great and human, something of the human future and the human past, in such a man: even if he only used it to rob the past or deceive the future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateMar 8, 2019
    ISBN9783749431953
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    Aesop

    Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.

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