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People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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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 am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.
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Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!
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If all the time consumed in attending dinners and luncheons was consumed in some work, the production of this country would be doubled
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A man only learns by two things one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.
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Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
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We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it
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I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.
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Don't squat with your spurs on.
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Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.
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Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
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There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
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