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hippopotamus
«There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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eagle, hippopotamus, In Me, mud, soar, soared, The Eagles, wallow, wallowed, wallowing, wants
«Folks, let me point out something to you, because for a lot of people in Washington, they could not be more surprised if Fidel Castro came loping through on the back of a hippopotamus [this Election Night].»
«There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Fat Man, hippopotamus, Isaac, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton
«He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk / Descending from the bus: / He looked again, and found it was / A Hippopotamus. / `If this should stay to dine,' he said, / `There won't be much for us!'»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
banker, bus, clerk, clerking, descending, dine, hippopotamus, The Bus