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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
Life
Sparrows
Mostly
Seeing
Eye

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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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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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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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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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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 stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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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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