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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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Spring
Hay
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Overdue
Hell
Miscellaneous
Rent
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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It's easy to see the faults in people, I know and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
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Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
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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 wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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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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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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 all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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