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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

Will Cuppy

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
Humorist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Writer
Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
Never
Baboon
Baboons
Unless
Call
Anyone
Sure
Facts

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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
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The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.
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The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.
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It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
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If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.
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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.
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