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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

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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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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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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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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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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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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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