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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.
Will Cuppy
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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.
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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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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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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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The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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