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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Will Cuppy

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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.
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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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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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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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