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Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
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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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The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.
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Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.
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Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.
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The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
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The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.
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More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
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There are two things I don't care how smart you are, you will never understand. One is an alienist's testimony, and the other is a railroad timetable.
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Prosperity this Winter is going to be enjoyed by everybody that is fortunate enough to get into the poor farm.
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When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
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I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
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If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
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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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I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.
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The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.
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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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