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You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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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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If a bank fails in China, they behead the men at the top of it that was responsible... If we beheaded all of ours that were responsible for bank failures, we wouldn't have enough people left to bury the heads.
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If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.
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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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The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.
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There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
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Common sense ain't common.
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Our country has plenty of five-cent cigars, but the trouble is they charge fifteen cents for them.
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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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Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.
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You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin.
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Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.
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You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally - did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.
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America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
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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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There will never be a time when the old horse is not superior to any auto ever made.
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