Camels

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A camel is a large mammal, used in the Middle East as a beast of burden. It has (depending on the species) one or two large humps on its back.

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• It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • The Bible, (Luke 18:25)

• Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
  Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 2.

• Looking athwart the burning flats, far off
  Seen by the high-necked camel on the verge
  Journeying southward
  • Alfred Tennyson, A Fragment

• A camel's hump is an ugly lump
  • Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, "How the Camel got his hump"

• 'Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.
  • Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond, opening words

• The camel has a single hump,
  The dromedary, two;
  Or else the other way around;
  I'm never sure. Are you?
  • Ogden Nash, The Camel

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• A camel is a horse designed by committee.

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