Everybody's business is nobody's business.
Note: Even if there is a story of this proverb anywhere is published, but this story I relate now is fabricated by me and it is written by my own words.
Once upon a time, there was, a sage king ruling his kingdom honestly as far as he could, but never had he mainly depended on his guarders or whom relating to him the news.
Many of his citizens told him that everyone of his nation is ready to do whatsoever the king order or what is necessary for the kingdom protection.
The sage king decided to make a plan, however to discover the truth.
One day he went accompanying with his retinues outside the city, which it is surrounded by many mountains, and the king noticed that there was a rock stood in the midst of the way hindering and annoying the passengers who passed there and none of them had a thought to remove the rock away.
The king wanted to examine his nation by putting a prize under the rock and it is then to the first one who is going to remove the rock.
A sack containing thousand yellow pieces of gold had been put carefully under the rock as the king ordered.
In the second day, some of merchants passed by the place and each one of them said, what a pity kingdom, there was no one taking into his shoulder to remove this rock!
In the third day, three returning soldiers came closely one followed the other and altogether sang a chant repeatedly:
"O, King you are the truth of our desire."
Jealousy impact comes out of thy empire
To what this rock is lying in our road?
We felt our agony is too much dire
Of course, the soldiers were retreated at a battle and escaped without informing their leader.
In the fourth day, women are out of the city in visiting their relatives as a result they were notifying that there was an occasion of consolation in a village not far away from the city and when they passed by the place where the rock hindering the way, they were disgusting and have said:
O, king, a rock like this, you can't remove, for what are you sitting on your throne?
The king after a week came back to the gap where the rock still hindering the way and noticed that the rock still unremoved.
The king asked to gather the people to be in front of his royal palace and when the king telling them the story and people were acquainted, each one of them said, now I shall go and remove the rock.
The king in hesitation and in a very fury to his retinues:
Do not tell me any, if you are not sure!
You nation, must do to their kingdom behalf without asking about a prize.
The king then shouted loudly:
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
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