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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."
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"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."
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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
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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
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"An elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self-possession of the ants who hold it."
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"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."
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"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, its best to let him run."
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"Th unwieldy elephant, To make them mirth, usd all his might, and wreathed His lithe proboscis."
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"Natures great masterpiece, an elephant, The only harmless great thing."
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