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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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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
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Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your Gags, and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.
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When you're through learning, you're through.
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
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We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.
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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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Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.
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With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.
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One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else
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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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The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.
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Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.
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You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one
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I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
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I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.
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The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
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The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
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