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

Will Cuppy

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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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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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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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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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 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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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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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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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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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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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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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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