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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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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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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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Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people than any single human in politics, and he lost. So there is a doubt just whether talking does you good or harm.
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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 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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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.
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Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.
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You can't legitimately kick on income tax, for it's on what you have made. You have already made it. But, look at land, farms, homes, stores, vacant lots. You pay year after year on them whether you make it or not.
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It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.
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Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
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One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
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The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
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In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.
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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
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Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
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She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.
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There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.
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Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.
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Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.
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If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.
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