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A Man Who Buys a Donkey

(Aesop’s Fables)

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　A man wanted to buy a donkey and took one home as a trial.

　He pulled the donkey over to where his other donkeys were.

　The donkey paid no attention to other donkeys

　but approached the one that was the laziest and the biggest eater.

　And the donkey didn’t do anything but sat still with the one that was the laziest and the biggest eater.

　The man returned the donkey he brought home to the owner.

“I’ll return this donkey as it is no good.”

“What? How could you tell so quickly that it was no good?”

“There’s no need to test any more.

　It’s most likely that the donkey has the same personality as the one it chose to be friends with.”


　When others judge us, they tend to assume that we have the same type of personalities as the people we always hang out with.

　That’s why we’d better not hang out with bad people.

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