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Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
Will Cuppy
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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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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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The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.
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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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I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
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[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.
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