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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Will Cuppy

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
Humorist
Journalist
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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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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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 hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
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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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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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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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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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 wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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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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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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