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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
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Journalist
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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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 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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[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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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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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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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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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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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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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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[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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.
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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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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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