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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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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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William Jacob Cuppy
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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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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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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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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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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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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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.
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A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.
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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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