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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
Rage
Spring
Humor
Hay
Hell
Overdue
Miscellaneous
Rent
Springs
Fever

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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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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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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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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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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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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 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 wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.
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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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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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