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Never miss a chance to shut up

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President
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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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Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where confidence is. And just who you want it restored to.
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Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
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More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
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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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