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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

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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
Mostly
Seeing
Eye
Life
Sparrows

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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
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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 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 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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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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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[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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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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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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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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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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