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A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.
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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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The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
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This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.
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Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.
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Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
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A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.
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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
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The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.
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It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
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When you're through learning, you're through.
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Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
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The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
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Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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There is nothing that sets a nation back as far in civilization as prosperity.
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