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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
Call
Anyone
Sure
Facts
Never
Baboon
Baboons
Unless

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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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It's easy to see the faults in people, I know and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.
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Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.
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The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.
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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 trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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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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They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.
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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.
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