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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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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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William Jacob Cuppy
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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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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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 Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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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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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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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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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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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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