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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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Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.
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If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.
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Work to make a living serve to make a life.
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You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.
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A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
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The Ways & Means Committee is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.
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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
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He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
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There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.
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It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.
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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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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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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
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Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.
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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.
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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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Always drink upstream from the herd.
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Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.
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If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change.
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