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When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
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Film Producer
Journalist
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Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
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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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If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.
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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
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I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your Gags, and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.
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Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'
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The Ways & Means Committee is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.
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Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
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A politician is just like a pickpocket it's almost impossible to get him to reform.
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There's no way in the world you're going to make a political party respectable unless you keep it out of office.
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In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.
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I never met a man that I didn't like.
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
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She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
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Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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