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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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No party is as bad as its leaders.
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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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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.
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We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.
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I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.
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It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
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The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.
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The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.
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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
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The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.
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A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.
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Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.
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We fed 'em Xmas and New Years now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas
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That's the trouble with our charities we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.
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There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.
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If you let women have their way, you will generally get even with them in the end.
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There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.
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