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We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening.
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
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The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
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The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.
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They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it
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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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Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.
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All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
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There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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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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Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
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If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.
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Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
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When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.
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I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your Gags, and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.
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