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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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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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[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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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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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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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.
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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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Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
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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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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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Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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