Which cartoon character said 'It'll never work?' (The first one)

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or maybe the best known . . .?

I think it was Lippy the Lion's, Hardy Har Har.

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1. There was a character named Glum in "Gulliver's Travels" on the Banana

Splits (he was a Lilliputian), who would always say "We're all going to die... We'll never make it" in a monotone voice, when the raft was heading over a waterfall etc. Not exactly the same but that's what came to mind.

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2. I always thought there was someone before that