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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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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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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 described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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