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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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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
Tunnels
World
Relax
Plenty
Land
Sure
Plows
Earthworms
Earth
Toiling
Ever
Drains
Whole

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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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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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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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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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 described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.
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I borrow to pay my honest debts and not to squander foolishly. What's more, I confine my borrowing to those who can well afford it. I don't go around sponging on widows and orphans unless they have plenty.
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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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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
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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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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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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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[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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