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An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Charles Darwin
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1845 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1809–1882); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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