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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.
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When you're through learning, you're through.
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Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.
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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
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Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
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Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
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Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.
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We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.
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The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.
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Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
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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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That's the trouble with our charities we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.
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You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
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