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I do not care for the big 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.

— Will Cuppy Attributed

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I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

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 male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931)

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.

Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.

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