There was a FIR-TREE who said proudly to the Bramble, "You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses."
The Bramble answered: ''You poor creature!, if you
would only call to mind the axes and saws which
are about to cut you down, you would have reason
to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a
Fir-Tree."
Moral: Better poverty without care,
than riches with.