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I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.
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If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
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The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.
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