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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
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There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
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More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
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