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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!
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It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.
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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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If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.
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Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
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Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.
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A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.
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You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.
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Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.
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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.
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Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.
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If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there
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Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
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