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Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
Will Cuppy
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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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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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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 stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.
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Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
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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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They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.
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The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
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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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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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[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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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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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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