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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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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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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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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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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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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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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.
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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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