The Ugly Duckling
...He thought about how he had been persecuted and scorned, and now he heard them all call him the most beautiful of all beautiful birds. He rustled his feathers and held his slender neck high, as he cried out with full heart: "I never dreamed there could be so much happiness, when I was the ugly duckling."
(Hans Christian Andersen, a literary fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling")