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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.
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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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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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[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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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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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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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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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I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.
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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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.
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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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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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