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The Oxen and the Axle-Trees

By AESOP

A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen.

The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels:

"Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out."

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Those who suffer most cry out the least.
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