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"Natures great masterpiece, an elephant, The only harmless great thing."
"Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured."

Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea; extinct relatives include mammoths and mastodons. Distinctive features of elephants include a long proboscis called a trunk, tusks, larg
"Natures great masterpiece, an elephant, The only harmless great thing."
"The people deck him like a docile king of elephants."
"The torn boughs trailing oer the tusks aslant, The saplings reeling in the path he trod, Declare his might — our lord the Elephant, Chief of the ways of God."
"In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big as a boot, that he could wriggle about from side to side; but he couldnt pick up things with it. But there was one Elephant — a new Elephant — an Elephants Child — who was full of satiable curiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions."
"An elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self-possession of the ants who hold it."
"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, its best to let him run."