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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.
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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.
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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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