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younger brother. "I may have nothing now, but I shall ways
have something to remember, while you have no memories at all
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Leo Tolstoy
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Two brothers set out on a journey together. At noon they lay down in a forest to rest. When they woke up they say a stone lying next to them. There was something written on the stone, and they tried to make out what it was.
“Whoever finds this stone,” they read, “let him go straight into the forest at sunrise. In the forest a river will appear; let him swim across the river to the other side. There he will find a she-bear and her cubs. Let him take the cubs from her and run up the mountain with the, without once looking back. On top of the mountain he will see a house, and in that house he will find happiness.”
When they had read what was written on the stone, the younger brother said:
“Let us go together. We can swim across the river, carry off the bear cubs, take them to the house on the mountain, and together find happiness.”
“I am not going into the forest after bear cubs,” said the elder brother, “ and I advise you not to go. In the first place, no one can know whether what is written on this stone is the truth-perhaps it was written in just. It is even possible that we have not read it correctly. In the second place, even if what is written is here is the truth- suppose we go into the forest and night comes and we cannot find the river. We shall be lost. And if we do find the river, how are we going to swim across it? It may be broad and swift. In the third place, even if we swim across the river, do you think it is an easy thing to take her cubs away from a she-bear? She will seize us, and instead of finding happiness, we shall perish, and all for nothing. In the fourth place, even if we succeeded in carrying off the bear cubs, we could not run up a mountain without stopping to rest. And, most important of all, the stone does not tell us what kind of happiness we should find in that house. It may be that happiness awaiting us there is not at all the sort of happiness we would want.”
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