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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
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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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 Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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 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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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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 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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
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The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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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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