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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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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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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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 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:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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