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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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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
Humorist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
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We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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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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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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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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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 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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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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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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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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