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I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
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Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.
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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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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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It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
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