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The Conceited Apple-Branch is a tale by Hans Christian Andersen where an apple tree branch becomes incredibly vain after being placed into a vase with other flowers. Despite the humbler flowers being happy and fulfilled, the apple branch remains unhappy as it continues to compare itself to the other plants and wishes for more. The branch ultimately learns that it is not superior when a storm breaks it and the gardener throws it on the fire. The story serves as a metaphor examining the destructiveness of vanity.

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lightness, and singular construction, so soon to be blown away by
the wind.

"See," she exclaimed, "how wonderfully God has made this little
flower.  I will paint it with the apple-branch together.  Every one
admires the beauty of the apple-bough; but this humble flower has been
endowed by Heaven with another kind of loveliness; and although they
differ in appearance, both are the children of the realms of beauty."

Then the sunbeam kissed the lowly flower, and he kissed the
blooming apple-branch, upon whose leaves appeared a rosy blush.
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