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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

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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
Stork
Storks
Voiceless
Nothing
Really

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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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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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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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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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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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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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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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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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[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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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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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