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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.
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What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.
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She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
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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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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
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I don't know what humor is.
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And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They dont like to be corrected in company. Dont send messages to em, send candy.
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What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.
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There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
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Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
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It looks to me like the candidates are trying to relieve the farmer of his vote, instead of his debts.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.
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We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.
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Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.
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