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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.

Will Cuppy

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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
Pay
Debts
Unless
Widows
Honest
Orphan
Around
Borrowing
Wells
Borrow
Squander
Well
Afford
Foolishly
Plenty
Orphans
Debt
Confine

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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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[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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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