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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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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
Exactly
Freedom
Thought
People
Pilgrims
Pilgrim
Believed

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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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The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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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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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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[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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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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