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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
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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. I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.
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A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
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I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neighbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about us, for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart
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I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
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Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
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The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.
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When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
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There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.
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You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
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If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.
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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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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
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The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.
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The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
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The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
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If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.
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This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.
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There is no more interesting place in the world to meet characters than a movie set.
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