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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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William Jacob Cuppy
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The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.
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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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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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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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[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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[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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