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The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.
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All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
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There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.
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Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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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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If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.
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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
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In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
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My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.
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Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.
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You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.
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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 difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
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