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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
Sparrows
Mostly
Seeing
Eye
Life

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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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The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
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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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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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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
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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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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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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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Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.
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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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.
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My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.
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Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.
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The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
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