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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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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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There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit.
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
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We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
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I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.
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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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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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