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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

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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
Summed
Helped
Philosophy
Four
Words
Life

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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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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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[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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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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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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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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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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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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[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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