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Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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In the Middle West now you got to put a brand on your soil, then in the Spring go on a round-up looking for it.
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
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If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.
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There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.
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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 was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
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Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.
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Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.
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... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.
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When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
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You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
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I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.
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We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.
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I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Our financial ills will never be settled till you fix it so every man will pay an income tax on what he earns, be it a farm, grocery store or municipal or government bonds.
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The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.
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If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier.
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