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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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If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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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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[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.
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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 hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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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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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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