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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
Seeing
Eye
Life
Sparrows
Mostly

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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.
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I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
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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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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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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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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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It's easy to see the faults in people, I know and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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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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[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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An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.
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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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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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