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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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Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
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Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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That's the trouble with our charities we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.
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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
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I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
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Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.
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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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The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.
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It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.
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I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.
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I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.
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Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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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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Don't squat with your spurs on.
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Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a good chance to get even with 'em, by electing 'em, just to prove what a liar they are.
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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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