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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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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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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 Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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 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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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.
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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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[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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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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