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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
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Auburn
Indiana
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 Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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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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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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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
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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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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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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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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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[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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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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