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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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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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.
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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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Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.
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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.
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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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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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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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