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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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I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.
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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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[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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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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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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, Does this fish think? I would even ask others, Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think? And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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 hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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