The Wisest Man

The Wisest Man  

Many years ago a king wanted to find the wisest man in his kingdom. He wanted the man to be his prime minister.
"How can I find the wisest man?" he asked his wife and his friends.
"Ask everyone in the kingdom to make a wish," the queen said.
"Choose the man who makes the wisest wish."
"Yes" the king agreed, "that's a good idea."
The king wrote a letter to all the newspapers. He requested everyone in the kingdom to make one wish. "You must write your wish on a postcard and send it to the palace," the king wrote in his letter.
A few days later the postcards arrived at the palace. There were many thousands of them. The king sat down and began to read them.
"Oh, dear," he said a few hours later to his wife. "The kingdom is full of idiots. Many say "I wish to be rich." Others say " I wish to be handsome."
He pointed to a pile of postcards. They all say, "I wish to marry the most beautiful girl in the world."
He sighed sadly. " There isn't one man with any wisdom."
More postcards arrived the next day and the day later. For many weeks the king spent all day and half the night reading the postcards. They all said the same thing. Then, at last, the king found a postcards that was different.
"Wife" , he said "I have found him! I've found the wisest man!"
"Tell me what he wishes for?" his wife asked.
The king read the postcards to his wife. It said : "I wish knew what to wish."

Sumber :
Buku Bahasa Inggris Untuk kelas X semester 2 SMA