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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.
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The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.
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A Democrat is just like a baby. If it's hollering and making a lot of noise, there is nothing serious the matter with it. When it's quiet and doesn't pay much attention to anything, that's when it's really dangerous.
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I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.
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Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.
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Always drink upstream from the herd.
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You politicians have got to look further ahead you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.
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I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart
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Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?
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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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One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape.
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My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.
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You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
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When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.
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I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
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It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
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Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
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I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.
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