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You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
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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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The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.
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Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.
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I never met a man I didn't get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.
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In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.
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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
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We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.
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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
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The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.
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In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell
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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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If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
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More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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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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