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To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.

Will Cuppy

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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
Seeing
Eye
Life
Sparrows
Mostly

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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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[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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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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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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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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.
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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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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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Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
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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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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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