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This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.
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Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.
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With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!
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We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
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I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.
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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
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It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.
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Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.
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Cities are like gentlemen, they are born, not made. You are either a city, or you are not, size has nothing to do with it. I bet San Francisco was a city from the very first time it had a dozen settlers. New York is Yokel, but San Francisco is City at Heart.
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