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A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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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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We do more talking progress than we do progressing.
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It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.
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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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Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
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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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They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.
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If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.
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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.
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If you don't like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it'll change.
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They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.
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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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Don't wait to buy land, buy land and wait.
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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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Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!
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If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
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Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.
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