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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.

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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
Warned
Apes
Near
Teach
Everything
Looks

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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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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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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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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to 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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I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.
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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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