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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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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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 Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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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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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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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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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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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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