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“What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.”
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- Source:
- Of Fortune.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e39fbd20467e5e6c4bd85f8b640001bbdaba446df4e04689df0252031003bd22
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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