Will Cuppy
Will Cuppy
William Jacob "Will" Cuppywas an American humorist and literary critic, known for his satirical books about nature and historical figures...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 August 1884
CountryUnited States of America
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Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He 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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I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country.
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If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
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As you know statistics show that a certain number of people get married each year and the rest don't. Well, I got into the wrong bunch of statistics. I should be pitied instead of questioned.
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[Footnote:] 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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[Footnote:] An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't?
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[Footnote:] We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
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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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[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length and breadth than two acres of ground." This brings up again the old question: Are the classics doomed? Our ancestors believed that four years of this sort of information would inevitably produce a President, or at least a Cabinet Member. It didn't seem to work out that way.
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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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Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.
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Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [ There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from the United States ].
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[Footnote:] Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.
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Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.