Armenian Tale
The King and the Weaver
10
min
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4.63
Life experience is often more valuable than theories from books. Sometimes even the poor weaver can be smarter than the sages at the imperial court, who are generously paid for their services.
The King’s Tower
Dominican Tale
6
min
5
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4.5
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622
ratings
The desire for fame can easily keep us from using our common sense.
The wasteful king decides that he wants to touch the moon. He calls the royal carpenter and orders him to build a tower so high that when he climbs all the way to the top, he will be able to touch the moon. However, his obsession eventually proves fatal.
The wasteful king decides that he wants to touch the moon. He calls the royal carpenter and orders him to build a tower so high that when he climbs all the way to the top, he will be able to touch the moon. However, his obsession eventually proves fatal.
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A long time ago, in a
He was so consumed by the idea he couldn’t think about anything else and forgot to rule his kingdom altogether. All he did every day was rack his brain to try to figure out how he could get high enough in the sky to touch the moon. When he slept, all he ever dreamed about was reaching up
The king spent many long days and nights thinking about nothing else but the chalky moon, and one day he finally came up with
He immediately sent for the royal carpenter and ordered him to build
He spent the next few days pacing back and forth, thinking, measuring, calculating, and drawing, but he ripped up
After a week had passed, the impatient king could no longer bear to watch the carpenter calculating and measuring silly drawings instead of just building his tall tower, and so he decided to pay him a visit. He was very angry and frustrated, and he threatened:
“You have three days to build…
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