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When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
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You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.
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It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
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There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.
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America is a land of opportunity and don't ever forget it.
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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
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The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.
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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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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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Don't wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.
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Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
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Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.
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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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