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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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Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
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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 man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.
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You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.
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You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
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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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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.
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