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

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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
Baboons
Unless
Call
Anyone
Sure
Facts
Never
Baboon

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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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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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[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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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