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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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Rent
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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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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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Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.
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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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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on 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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[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 Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.
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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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