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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.
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Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere
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That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.
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Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.
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Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
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Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
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The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!
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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
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The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
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A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
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Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.
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There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.
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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like. I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.
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Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
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Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.
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