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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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Anyway
Learn
Live

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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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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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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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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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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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.
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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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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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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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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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 moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
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