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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
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It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.
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When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you've got to have been looking for it.
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There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.
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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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The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
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Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
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Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.
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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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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.
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Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
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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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Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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You know Lincoln's famous remark about God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them? Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.
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Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
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The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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