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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
Critic
Humorist
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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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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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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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 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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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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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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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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Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.
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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 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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