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"summary": "\"The Oxen And The Wheels\" is a short fable by Aesop in which two oxen haul a heavy wagon through thick mud without a word of complaint, while the wheels — doing far less work — creak and groan at every turn. The noise makes the oxen's hard labour even harder to bear, until they finally lose patience and confront the wheels with a pointed truth: those who carry the real burden are often the quietest about it.",
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"A pair of Oxen were drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry country road. They had to use all their strength to pull the wagon, but they did not complain.",
"The Wheels of the wagon were of a different sort. Though the task they had to do was very light compared with that of the Oxen, they creaked and groaned at every turn. The poor Oxen, pulling with all their might to draw the wagon through the deep mud, had their ears filled with the loud complaining of the Wheels. And this, you may well know, made their work so much the harder to endure.",
"“Silence!” the Oxen cried at last, out of patience. “What have you Wheels to complain about so loudly? We are drawing all the weight, not you, and we are keeping still about it besides.”",
"Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around the 6th century BCE, whose fables have shaped moral literature across cultures for over two thousand years. \"The Oxen And The Wheels\" is among his many animal fables that use everyday observations — here, the literal creaking of wagon wheels — to deliver a timeless insight about work, humility, and complaint."
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