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It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
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If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.
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Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.
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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
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Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.
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If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
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The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.
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