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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.
Will Cuppy
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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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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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Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
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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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[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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