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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
Four
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Life
Summed
Helped
Philosophy

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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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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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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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 Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, Does this fish think? I would even ask others, Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think? And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.
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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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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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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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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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