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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.
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These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.
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There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.
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I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em
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They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.
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Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.
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There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.
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You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.
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They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.
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Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.
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You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.
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I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.
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Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
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If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
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More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
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