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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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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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[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 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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[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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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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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The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.
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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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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 stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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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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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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