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Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
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If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
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I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.
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Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.
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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.
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I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, Put it in land, and you can always walk on it. We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.
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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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I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.
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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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Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.
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A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.
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Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.
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I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.
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The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
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