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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.
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Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.
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When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.
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The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.
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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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If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.
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People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.
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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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More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
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I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
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I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
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There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.
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I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
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President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.
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Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.
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