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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 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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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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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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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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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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 hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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