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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

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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
Anyway
Learn
Live
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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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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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:] 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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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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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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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