Goodreads gives the book a 3. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. This article is a stub. You can help Earth's Children by expanding it. Contents [ show ]. The Clan of the Cave Bear. Categories :. Cancel Save. THE Horse, adorned with his great war-saddle, and champing his foaming bridle, came thundering along the way, and made the mountains echo with his loud shrill neighing.

He had not gone far, before he overtook an Ass, who was labouring under a heavy burden, and moving slowly on in the same track with himself. Immediately he called out to him, in a haughty, imperious tone, and threatened to trample him in the dirt, if he did not break the way for him.

The poor, patient Ass, not daring to dispute the matter, quietly got out of his way, as fast as he could, and let him go by. Not long after this, the same Horse, in an engagement with the enemy, happened to be shot in the eye, Which made him unfit for show, or any military business; so he was stript of his fine ornaments, and sold to a carrier.

The Ass, meeting him in this forlorn condition, thought that now it was his time to insult; and so, says he, Hey-day, friend, is it you! Well, I always believed that pride of yours would one day have a fall. Pride is a very unaccountable vice: many people fall into it unawares, and are often led into it hy motives, which, if they considered things rightly, would make them abhor the very thoughts of it.

There is no man that thinks well of himself, but desires that the rest of the world should think so too. Now it is the wrong measures we take in endeavouring after this, that expose us to discerning people in that light which they call pride, and which is so far from giving us any advantage in their esteem, that it renders us despicable and ridiculous.

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