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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've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
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Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.
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You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.
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I never met a man that I didn't like.
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Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.
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Just because it's common sense, doesn't mean it's common practice.
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Polo, racing and horse shows all are doing great work to help the farmer and rancher to raise better horses.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.
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And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke!
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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.
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Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.
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This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
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We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
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A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.
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The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.
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Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.
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... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.
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Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.
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