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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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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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I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it
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I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
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It's no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times. Anyone can be a Republican when the stock market is up, but when stocks are selling for no more than they're worth, I tell you, being a Republican - it's a sacrifice.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
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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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When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.
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Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.
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I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.
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People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible
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Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.
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Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.
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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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The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.
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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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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
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