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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy
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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.
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The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.
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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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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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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.
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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, Does this fish think? I would even ask others, Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think? And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.
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[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.
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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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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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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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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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