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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
Literary Critic
Writer
Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
Rent
Springs
Fever
Rage
Spring
Hay
Humor
Overdue
Hell
Miscellaneous

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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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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 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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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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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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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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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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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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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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