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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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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
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They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
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A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
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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 never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
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No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Farmers, get out your sense of humor. Congress meets to relieve you again next week.
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There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
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The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.
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People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
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Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they did. This bill makes patriots out of everybody. You sure do die for your country if you die from now on.
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We have the best Congress that money can buy.
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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your Gags, and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.
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