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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.

Will Cuppy

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
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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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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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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
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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 stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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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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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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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
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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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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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