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The Labourer and the Nightingale - Illustration on peace | IllustrateTheWord

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The Labourer and the Nightingale

By AesopSource: Aesop's Fables - Project Gutenberg (Public Domain)Short18 words

Moral: A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety

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