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The Oxen and the Creaking Cart is a situational fable ascribed to Aesop and is numbered 45 in the Perry Index.[1] Originally directed against complainers, it was later linked with the proverb ‘the worst wheel always creaks most’[2] and aimed emblematically at babblers of all sorts.

  1. ^ Aesopica
  2. ^ The Wordsworth Dictionary of Proverbs, p.650

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