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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
Vipers
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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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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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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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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
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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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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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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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