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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

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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
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Instantly
Pleasing
Lion
Lions
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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.
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I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.
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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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