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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
Humorist
Journalist
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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 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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
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I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.
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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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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The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
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A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.
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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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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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