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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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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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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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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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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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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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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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I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.
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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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[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.
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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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