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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
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William Jacob Cuppy
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.
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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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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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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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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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