Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Bee, from Insects for Everybody
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“I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
Roosevelt to Henry M. Heymann (2 December 1919), as quoted in Roosevelt and Howe (1962), by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., p. 153
1910s
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