The Ass Carrying the Image

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The Ass Carrying the Image
        AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden
        Image, to be placed in one of its Temples.
        As he passed along,
        the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image.
        The Ass,
        thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect for
        himself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refused
        to move another step.
        The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid his
        whip lustily about his shoulders and said, "O you perverse
        dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an
        Ass."
       
        They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to
        others.