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C.N. Douglas, comp.  Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical.  1917.
 
Elephant
 
  The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.
Shakespeare.    
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                    Th’ unwieldly elephant,
To make them mirth, us’d all his might, and wreathed
His lithe proboscis.
Milton.    
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