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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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If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.
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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like. I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.
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When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.
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There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.
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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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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
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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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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 are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.
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I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, Put it in land, and you can always walk on it. We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.
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With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
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Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.
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There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
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Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
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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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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.
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If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.
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