One day the frog poked his head out of the well and boasted to the sea turtle that no creature was happier than he. Why, he could dive up and down in the mud and enjoy a freer range of movement than all those shrimps and tadpoles living around him. He invited the turtle to come down into the well and see for himself. The turtle declined and instead boasted of his perspective outside the well. “A distance of a thousand miles is not sufficient to describe the extent of the ocean, nor can one ever hope to sound its depth,” the turtle said. “It’s sad to see you peeping at the sky through a tube.”
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