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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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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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 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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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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The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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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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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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 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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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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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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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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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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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