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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.
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Every guy looks in his pocket and then votes.
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If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
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If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.
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One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.
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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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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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Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.
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In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.
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Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
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Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
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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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Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
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You know Lincoln's famous remark about God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them? Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.
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The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.
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We fed 'em Xmas and New Years now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next Xmas
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We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.
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