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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.

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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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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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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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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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
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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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It's easy to see the faults in people, I know and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
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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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I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.
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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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