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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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Journalist
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Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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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 trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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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 Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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