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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
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Springs
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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 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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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
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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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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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