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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
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William Jacob Cuppy
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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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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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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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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 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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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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