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A Wise and illustrious Writer of Fables was visiting a travelling menagerie with a view to collecting literary materials. As he was passing near the Elephant, that animal said:
"How sad that so justly famous a satirist should mar his work by ridicule of people with long noses -- who are the salt of the earth!"