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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
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.
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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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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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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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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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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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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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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The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
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