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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 guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
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A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
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It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.
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There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
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Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
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It would drive a person crazy to dope out really what does divide the two parties. Prosperity don't divide the two parties, for under either administration the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.
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Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.
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Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
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It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.
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The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid.
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If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
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The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.
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Whoever said a horse was dumb, was dumb
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I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.
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Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely
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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
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Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if they are.
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Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.
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