A Quote by Oscar Wilde
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
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Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.
Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.
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