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You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They kill the bull very quick. Wall Street lets you live and suffer.
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I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.
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If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.
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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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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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Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.
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I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.
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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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The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms.
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Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.
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I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
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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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Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
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Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom.
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I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.
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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
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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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Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.
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