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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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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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[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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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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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.
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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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[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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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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[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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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