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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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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.
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The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.
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There wasn't any Republicans in Washington's day. No Republicans, no Boll Weevil, no income tax, no cover charge, no disarmament conference, no luncheon clubs, no stop lights, no static, no head winds. My Lord, living in those days, who wouldn't be great?
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
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Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man we never get to vote on what he is to do.
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
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Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
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If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
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A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
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If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why... we would be O.K.
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If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there
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In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.
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I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
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Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.
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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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I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
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