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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
Writer
Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
Good
People
Faults
Hardest
Harder
Especially
Easy

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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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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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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, Does this fish think? I would even ask others, Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think? And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.
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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 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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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.
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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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