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  The old lion was dead. Now, a young lion would have to take his place. He was strong, savage and proud. He was waiting for the gifts from other animals. All the animals brought their gifts. The gazelles gave him fresh food. The monkeys gave him a crown of coloured branches. Last of all come a big number of mice. Each mouse held a grain of corn.

The king was angry because the grain of corn was not 
a suitable gift for a king. The king of the jungle roared. So the mice ran away in terror. They dropped the grain as they escaped.

      Then spring came and the rain fell down. The warm sun helped the grain to grow. By summer, the yellow corn was so tall that it covered the vast open spaces round the lion’s den. 

One day, the hunters shot the lion and wounded him. The lion dragged his tired mass and hid inside the tall branches of the corn. The hunters could not see him. At last, they gave up the chase. In fact, the small gift of the mice saved his life.

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      It is common to hear the expression 'ladies first'. Women, in particular, daily repeat it as if it were a rule. They actually feel proud of it, unknowing its origin and its real indications. They think it is praise to them, while it is a shame to be said according to its origin. 

    The story of this saying took place in Italy. It is about two lovers who loved each other so much. They decided to marry. But some social circumstances and relatives blocked the way of their marriage. They did not accept this and intentionally decided either to live together as husband and wife, or to die together. 

      Having done best to achieve the marriage, they got disappointed. Dying together was the only option. They thought about a number of ways to commit  suicide. 

   Throwing themselves into the sea was the appropriate way to them. The man sincerely said he would not bear the situation of seeing her drowning to death in front of his eyes. He convinced his beloved that he would throw himself first and then she would do so next. 

      In the twinkle of an eye, the man did it and drowned. The lady was looking at him as if he was 'singing'. The man was dead. It was the lady's turn to follow him to live together underneath, as they had decided. But she soon broke her promise, forgetting her sweetheart who was dying in front of her eyes and in heart as well. 

     She 'threw herself back to the village'. Yes! Her promise was to throw herself. And she did, but to the village instead of the sea. 

      She came back home, to her relatives as if nothing had happened. Few days later, she fell in love with another man. She was happy with him as if it were her first love. It did not take a lot of time till she got married to him.

     Since then, people started doubting ladies and started repeating the saying 'ladies first', with the implication that ladies should throw themselves into the sea first, should die first, because they are not trustworthy.

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        There was a boy who was always losing his temper. His father gave him a bag full of nails and said to him, “My son, I want you to hammer a nail into our garden fence every time you need to direct your anger against something and you lose your temper.” 

So the son started to follow his father’s advice. On the first day he hammered in 37 nails, but getting the nails into the fence was not easy, so he started trying to control himself when he got angry. As the days went by, he was hammering in less nails, and within weeks he was able to control himself and was able to refrain from getting angry and from hammering nails. He came to his father and told him what he had achieved. His father was happy with his efforts and said to him “but now, my son, you have to take out a nail for every day that you do not get angry.” 

The son started to take out the nails for each day that he did not get angry, until there were no nails left in the fence.

He came to his father and told him what he had achieved. His father took him to the fence and said, “My son, you have done well, but look at these holes in the fence. This fence will never be the same again.” Then he added “When you say things in a state of anger, they leave marks like these holes on the hearts of others. You can stab a person and withdraw the knife but it doesn’t matter how many times you say ‘I’m sorry,’ because the wound will remain.