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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
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Humorist
Journalist
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.
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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, Does this fish think? I would even ask others, Do you suppose this Butterbelly can think? And all I would get in reply was a look. At the age of eighteen, I left the state.
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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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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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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
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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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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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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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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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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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