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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
Sure
Facts
Never
Baboon
Baboons
Unless
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Anyone

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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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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, Does this fish think? I would even ask others, Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think? And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
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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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[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.
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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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I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.
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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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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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