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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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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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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 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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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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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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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[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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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 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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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