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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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William Jacob Cuppy
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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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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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[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.
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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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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
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The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
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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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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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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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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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