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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
Hell
Overdue
Miscellaneous
Rent
Springs
Fever
Rage
Spring
Humor
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.
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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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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
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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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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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