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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.

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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
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Everything
Looks
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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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[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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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[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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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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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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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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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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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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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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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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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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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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