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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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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
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Journalist
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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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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[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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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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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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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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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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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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