One day an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget. As he stood in ...

In the days of king Arthur there lived a ploughman and his wife. They had lived together happily for twenty years, but they had no child. The great magician Merlin had sympathy for...

Jack was the son of a farmer, and lived in the days of King Arthur. He was brave and intelligent and became famous for killing a lot of giants. Jack first killed the giant of Mount...

  Old friends. They finish your sentences, they remember the cat that ran away when you were twelve, and they tell you the truth when you‘ve had a bad haircut. But mostly, t...

Once upon a time, there was a boy called Narcissus. He was the son of a god and he was very, very handsome. Many women fell in love with him, but he turned them away. One of the wo...

  When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him ...

One day, an acquaintance met Socrates and said, 'Do you know what I just heard about your friend?'   'Hold on a minute,' Socrates replied. 'Before you talk to me about my frie...

Lady Godiva was an Anglo-Saxon woman who lived in England during the 11th century. She was the wife of Leofric, Lord of Coventry. According to legend, her husband forced his people...

  There was once a placid and beautiful town in which there were a couple of lovers who would often stay together on the top of the mountain enjoying the sunrise and by the se...

导读：或许我们的意识里有太多“理所当然”，因此我们极少对父母说“感谢你们”，对老师说“多谢栽培”，对保洁的叔叔阿姨道一句“辛苦了”…&h...