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The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.
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Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.
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Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
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It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
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The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
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There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.
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It's no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times. Anyone can be a Republican when the stock market is up, but when stocks are selling for no more than they're worth, I tell you, being a Republican - it's a sacrifice.
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I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.
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Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.
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If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.
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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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The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.
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There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.
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Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely
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If your time is worth anything, travel by air. If not, you might just as well walk.
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We have the best Congress that money can buy.
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