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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.

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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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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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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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[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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The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.
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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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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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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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