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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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The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
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A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.
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Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
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A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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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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My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.
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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
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I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.
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You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
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The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
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Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
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