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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
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Journalist
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.
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People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
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Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.
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Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
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Don't wait to buy land, Buy land and wait. Find out where the people are going and buy the land before they get there.
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Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.
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Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.
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When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.
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I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.
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It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
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A politician is just like a pickpocket it's almost impossible to get him to reform.
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Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
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It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
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This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
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George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.
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It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.
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Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely
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We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.
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I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
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There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.
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