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"His services are like so many white elephants, of which nobody can make use, and yet that drain ones gratitude, if indeed one does not feel bankrupt."
"The people deck him like a docile king of elephants."

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
"His services are like so many white elephants, of which nobody can make use, and yet that drain ones gratitude, if indeed one does not feel bankrupt."
"An elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self-possession of the ants who hold it."
"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."
"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, its best to let him run."
"Natures great masterpiece, an elephant, The only harmless great thing."