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• We laugh at the Indian philosopher, who to account for the support of the earth, contrived the hypothesis of a huge elephant, and to support the elephant, a huge tortoise.
  If we will candidly confess the truth, we know as little of the operation of the nerves, as he did of the manner in which the earth is supported...
• Once upon a time, there were five blind men who had the opportunity to experience an elephant for the first time.
  One approached the elephant, and, upon encountering one of its sturdy legs, stated, "Ah, an elephant is like a tree....
• We walk on like an elephant and back off like a giraffe.
• Stampy butts another elephant] Marge: Gosh, I thought he'd be happier in his true habitat.
  Warden: Oh, I think he is. Marge: Then why is he attacking all those other elephants?...
• Marty: We think we know how your mind works, Bart. So how about thi
  we pay your principal $10,000 to pull down his pants and keep them down for the rest of the school year, ha ha!...
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• What 's done we partly may compute, But know not what 's resisted.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Address to the Unco Guid...
• Every man is apt to form his notions of things difficult to be apprehended, or less familiar, from their analogy to things which are more familiar.
  Thus, if a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subjec...
• Africa is God's country, and he can have it. Well, sir, we left New York drunk and early on the morning of February 2.
  After fifteen days on the water and six on the boat, we finally arrived on the shores of Africa....