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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

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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
Mostly
Seeing
Eye
Life
Sparrows

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[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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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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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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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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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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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.
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