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It's easy to see the faults in people, I know and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
Will Cuppy
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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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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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