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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
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William Jacob Cuppy
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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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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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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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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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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 head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.
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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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[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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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 Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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