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It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell'em what they will do.
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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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Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
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Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.
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Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.
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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
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The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
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Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit - everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not - and now we are having to pay for 'em, and we are howling like a pet coon.
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
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The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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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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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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