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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
Will Cuppy
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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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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 Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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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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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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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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