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Will Cuppy war US-armerikanischer Schriftsteller, Journalist und Literaturkritiker.

✵ 23. August 1884 – 19. September 1949
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“Charlemagne's strong point was morals. He was so moral that some people thought he was only fooling. These people came to no good.”

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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part III: Strange Bedfellows, Charlemagne

“Other kings let their ministers make their mistakes for them, but Louis insisted on making the important mistakes personally.”

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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part IV: A Few Greats, Louis XIV

“[Footnote] Great men seem to have only one purpose in life — getting into history. That may be all they are good for.”

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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part VI: Now We're Getting Somewhere, Captain John Smith

“Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.”

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How to Get from January to December (1951)

“[Footnote:] We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.”

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The Common Viper
How to Become Extinct (1941)

“Then Hamilcar … was drowned in 228 B. C. while crossing a stream with a herd of elephants.”

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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Hannibal

“She was the most intelligent woman of her day and she refused to get married in nine languages.”

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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part V: Merrie England, Elizabeth

“Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honor.”

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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part V: Merrie England, Henry VIII

“I think you are absolutely right about everything, except I think humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.”

Will Cuppy

From a letter to Max Eastman, 1936, about Eastman's book, The Enjoyment of Laughter ISBN 0-38413-740-7 (reprint). Eastman mss. http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/eastman.html, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington.

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