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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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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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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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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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Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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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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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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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.
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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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Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.
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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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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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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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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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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
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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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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 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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