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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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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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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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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 wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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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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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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 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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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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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 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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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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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 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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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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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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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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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