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Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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You shouldn't say anything mean about people who can't read. You should write it instead.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.
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I never met a man that I didn't like.
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Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
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When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.
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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
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People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.
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They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.
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A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.
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If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.
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Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.
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What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.
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A man only learns by two things one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.
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... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.
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