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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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If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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:] 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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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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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 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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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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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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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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[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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
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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 wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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