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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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

How to Get from January to December (1951)

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

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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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