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Nail in the fence  

 There once was a little girl who had a bad temper. Her mother gave her a bag of nails and told  her that every time she lost her temper, she must hammer a nail into the back of the fence

The first day the girl had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as she learned to control her anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down

She discovered it was easier to hold her temper than to drive those  nails into the fence

Finally the day came when the girl didn't lose her temper at all.

She told her mother about it and the mother suggested that the girl now  pull out one nail for each  day that she was able to hold her temper

The days passed and the young girl was finally able to tell her  mother that all the nails were gone

The mother took her daughter by the hand and led her to the fence

She said, "You have done well, my daughter, but look at the holes in the  fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar

just like  this one."

 

 And the moral is :You can put a knife in a person and draw it out. It won't matter how  many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there