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The human loved to tease the tortoise.

“See,” said the human, “I can run much faster than you can,” as he skipped by.

The tortoise looked up and smiled.

“And I can grasp things with my hands, which as everyone knows is the mark of a higher species,” the human said as he plucked a berry from the tree and put it in his mouth. The tortoise just smiled.

“Surely the Creator loves me best,” the human said, “at least that’s what I read in all our sacred books.”

This time the tortoise looked at the human directly. “There is one thing I have that you don’t.”

“And what could that possibly be?” asked the human, hiding a smile about to form.

“Some of us live to be a hundred and fifty years old,” said the smiling tortoise, “which means that long after you’re gone, I will still be moving along this path with a smile on my face.”

Moral: If you take the long view, sometimes things will work out after all.