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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
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Philosophy
Four
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Life

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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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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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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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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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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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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 stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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[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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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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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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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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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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