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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
Nothing
Really
Stork
Storks
Voiceless

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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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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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