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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
Humorist
Journalist
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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 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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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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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[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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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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