承受最多的人往往是抱怨最少的人。
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.”
Those who suffer most cry out the least.
牛和屠夫
The Oxen and the Butchers
一次,公牛们在一起商量对付屠夫的办法。屠夫经常残害他们的同伴。在约定的一天,他们聚集起来实行预定的计划。一头年纪大的公牛对他们说:“那些屠夫确实是罪该万死,但是他们技术熟练,我们可以免除很多死亡的痛苦;如果我们遇到不熟练的新手,那么我们的痛苦就要加倍了。即使屠夫们应该得到应有的惩罚,但是我们又怎么能使人类不再有吃牛肉的欲望呢?”