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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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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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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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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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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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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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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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[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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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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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