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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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William Jacob Cuppy
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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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 stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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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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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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 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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[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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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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