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    A laborer trapped a nightingale that he enjoyed listening to sing every night. When he captured it, the nightingale said it would not sing in a cage. The laborer threatened to eat the nightingale, but the bird convinced him to let it go by promising to share three valuable pieces of advice. Once free, the nightingale told the laborer to never trust a captive's promise, to appreciate what you have, and not to dwell on things that cannot be changed, then flew away.

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    A laborer trapped a nightingale that he enjoyed listening to sing every night. When he captured it, the nightingale said it would not sing in a cage. The laborer threatened to eat the nightingale, but the bird convinced him to let it go by promising to share three valuable pieces of advice. Once free, the nightingale told the laborer to never trust a captive's promise, to appreciate what you have, and not to dwell on things that cannot be changed, then flew away.

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    A laborer trapped a nightingale that he enjoyed listening to sing every night. When he captured it, the nightingale said it would not sing in a cage. The laborer threatened to eat the nightingale, but the bird convinced him to let it go by promising to share three valuable pieces of advice. Once free, the nightingale told the laborer to never trust a captive's promise, to appreciate what you have, and not to dwell on things that cannot be changed, then flew away.

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    Aesops Fables

    The Labourer and the Nightingale

    A Labourer lay listening to a Nightingales song

    throughout the summer night. So pleased was he with it that

    the next night he set a trap for it and captured it. Now that

    I have caught thee, he cried, thou shalt always sing to me.

    We Nightingales never sing in a cage. said the bird.

    Then Ill eat thee. said the Labourer. I have always

    heard say that a nightingale on toast is dainty morsel.

    Nay, kill me not, said the Nightingale; but let me

    free, and Ill tell thee three things far better worth than my

    poor body. The Labourer let him loose, and he flew up to

    a branch of a tree and said: Never believe a captives

    promise; thats one thing. Then again: Keep what you have.

    And third piece of advice is: Sorrow not over what is lost

    forever. Then the song-bird flew away.

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