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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is that the Democrat is a cannibal, they live off each other, while the Republicans live off the Democrats.
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President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.
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Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.
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Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it
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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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I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
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Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about finances than the rest of us know about our businesses... which has proved to be nothing.
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It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
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Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.
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We're all ignorant, just about different stuff.
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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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Lord, let me live until I die.
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Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'
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The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a banker fails, he fails in splendor.
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It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.
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I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
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I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
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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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When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like.
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