Will Cuppy Quotes

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You are a bug only if you belong to the order Hemiptera, formerly the suborder Heteroptera. Is that clear now?

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Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.

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His kick is less severe than that of the Ostrich, which easily breaks a man's leg. The Emu's kick seldom breaks more than the fibula, the smaller bone of the leg, leaving the tibia in first-class condition.

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It is the chief function of the ichthyologists, or fish people, to keep pointing out, day after day, the perfect fitness of fish for existence in a liquid medium. And they're right, at that. But I sometimes think that if fish were not well adapted for an aquatic life — if they were square, say — then it would be time to talk.

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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

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Vipers show you what Mother Nature can think up when she puts her mind to it.

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I am often asked why Mosquitoes hum loudest when close to one's ear. I don't know.

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As a rule fish in their native element do not remain stationary for any length of time, especially when something is chasing them.

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The Garter Snake or Striped Snake is our most abundant North American serpent. Although they are always getting killed or driven from their natural homes, there are just as many Garter Snakes as ever, and I can tell you the reason. Garter Snakes are crazy about sex and they don't care who knows it.

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Octopuses do not develop their minds. They get by and that's all they care.

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Goldfish come of a very old family, but it seems to do them no good. They have little place to go.... They have been cultivated so long that they are now useless. Goldfish have most uninteresting habits.

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I have nothing against mice, in moderation.... My own mice just eat whatever I have in the place, including soap. Not an ideal diet, but they'll have to make it do or move elsewhere.

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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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Fish are very easy to understand because only about thirteen thousand kinds or species have been discovered up to now.

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Amoebas not only divide, they also blend. When it's all over there is one amoeba where there were two. Amoebas blend apparently because they enjoy blending for its own sake. The amoeba often frequents laboratories. You'll find quite a number of amoebas at Yale, Princeton, and Harvard.

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Salmon have strange ideas. They are afraid of parsley and slices of lemon.

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