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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.

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
Humorist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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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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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.
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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 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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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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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