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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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Auburn
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William Jacob Cuppy
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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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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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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 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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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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