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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
Will Cuppy
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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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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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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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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Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.
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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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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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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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A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.
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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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