"Th' unwieldy elephant, To make them mirth, us'd all his might, and wreathed His lithe proboscis."
— Elephants

January 1, 1970

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John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 345, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 219.