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Quotes from The Chimpanzee; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations — Oliver Herford

d. 1935 England

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Children, behold the Chimpanzee;
He sits on the ancestral tree
From which we sprang in ages gone.
I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,
We might, for aught that I can say,
Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.

The Chimpanzee; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oliver Herford (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.