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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
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Apes
Near
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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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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[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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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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[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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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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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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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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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