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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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William Jacob Cuppy
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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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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[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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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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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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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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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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The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.
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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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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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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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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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[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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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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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