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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
Critic
Humorist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Writer
Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
Intelligence
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Purpose
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Mistakes

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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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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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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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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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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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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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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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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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The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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 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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