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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
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If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
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Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
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It would drive a person crazy to dope out really what does divide the two parties. Prosperity don't divide the two parties, for under either administration the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.
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We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.
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It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.
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There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'
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What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?
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We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.
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Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.
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I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
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Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.
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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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You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.
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Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.
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The Schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
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