“ Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others. There was once a man in Ispahan Ever and ever so long ago, And he had a head, the phrenologists said, That fitted him for a show. For his modesty's bump was so large a lump That its summit stood far above the wood Of his hair, like a mountain peak… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory. ”
- Kwame Nkrumah- Copy
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“ He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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