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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
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.
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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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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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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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[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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
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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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