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[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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William Jacob Cuppy
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It's easy to see the faults in people, I know and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
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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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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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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.
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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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[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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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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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 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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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 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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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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