• When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  Source: Recollections of the Civil War (1898) door C.A. Dana

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman 1809-1865
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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. by : Abraham Lincoln

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