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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.
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It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about it's the return of my investment
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Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.
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It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.
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Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
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There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.
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There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
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It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
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The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
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Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
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I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.
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And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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Work to make a living serve to make a life.
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
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See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.
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If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.
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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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This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
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Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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