THE adage "be careful what you wish for" exists for a reason, even if the point is lost on some of us. It’s a simple warning to consider the consequences of what could happen if we don’t get what we desperately want.
This was the advice offered by Aesop, a slave and storyteller who was believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE, and whose life was immortalised in Aesop’s Fables, a collection of stories imparting moral values.
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