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| Ain’t What I Used to Be It has been said, "Be contented with what you have, but never too__1__with what you are." There is a story about a farmer who saw a tiger’s tail__2__between two large rocks.In a hu  rry, he seized the tail and__3__. All of a sudden he realized he had an angry tiger by the__4__and only two__5__stood between him and the tiger's teeth and claws! So there he remained, __6__to loosen his hold on the__7__ animal's tail in case he will surely be killed. A monk happened to go by and the farmer called out in__8__, "Come over here and help me.__9__ this tiger!" The monk said, "Oh, no. I cannot do that. I cannot take the__10__of another." Then he went on to deliver a long__11__against killing. All the while, the farmer was holding__12__to the tail of the angry tiger. When the monk finally finished his__13__, the farmer asked, "If you won't kill the tiger, then__14__ come and hold its tail while I kill it." The monk thought that perhaps, it would be all right to__15__hold the tiger's tail, so he__16__and pulled.The farmer, however, turned and walked away down the road. The monk__17__after him, "Come back here and kill the tiger!" "Oh, no," the farmer replied. "You have__18__me!" If the largest room in the world is "room for improvement", then it is good to leave__19__of room for change. A life of change! A life of growth! And always leaving room for__20__. It's the only way to live. | ||||
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