The North Wind and the Sun
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The North Wind and the Sun is one of Aesop's Fables. It is type 298 in the Aarne–Thompson folktale classification. The moral it teaches - the superiority of persuasion over force - has made the story
The wind attempts to strip the traveler of his cloak, illustrated by Milo Winter in a 1919 Aesop anthology
The Sun persuades the traveler to take off his cloak
Jean-Baptiste Oudry's cosmic interpretation of La Fontaine's fable, 1729/34
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
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"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phr
The North Wind and the Sun
…appropriate. It has been criticized for its limitations in descriptive and acoustic research on varieties of English, and alternative passages like The Boy Who Cried Wolf have been suggested as replacements. International Phonetic Association (1999). Handbook of the International Phonetic Association. Cambridge University…
Francis Barlow's illustration of the fable, 1687