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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
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Harder
Especially
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People

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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
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The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.
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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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.
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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 hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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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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[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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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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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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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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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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