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The minute you read something and you can't understand it, you can be sure it was written by a lawyer. Then, if you give it to another lawyer to read and he don't know just what it means, then you can be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. If it's in a few words and is plain, and understandable only one way, it was written by a non-lawyer.

Will Rogers

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.
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America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
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See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.
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If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change.
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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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When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.
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Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.
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There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
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President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
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If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.
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My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.
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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
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The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.
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Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.
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A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
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They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.
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The only thing that can stop hair from falling ... is the floor.
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... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.
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