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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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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
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Brain
Science
Men
Risen
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Evolution
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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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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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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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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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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 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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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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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
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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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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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