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Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

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Clarence Day
Age: 61 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 18
Died: 1935
Died: December 28
Author
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Clarence Shepherd Day
Jr.
B. H. Arkwright
Power
Patience
Defeats
May
Suffer
Exhibitions
Much
Defeat
Superb
Noble
Elephants
Seem
Combined
Quality
Restraint
Suffering
Excess
Seems
Carried

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