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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.
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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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There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people
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There is nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating
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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
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You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.
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Labor leaders don't do much laboring after they are able to lead.
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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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A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.
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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
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We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.
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There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
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You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.
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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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There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good free holy beans.
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If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?
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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
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Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.
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The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.
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