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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
Sparrows
Mostly
Seeing
Eye
Life

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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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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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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[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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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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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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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 head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.
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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
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