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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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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 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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[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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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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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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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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 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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.
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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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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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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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