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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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And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or they're terrible or they're good, or whatever, but you can just pass 'em by. But with Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law! And every time they make a law, it's a joke!
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The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
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You know Lincoln's famous remark about God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them? Well, you are not going to get people's votes nowadays by calling 'em common. Lincoln might have said it, but I bet it was not until after he was elected.
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This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.
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A fool and his money are soon elected.
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
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When you are satisfied, you are successful. For that's all there is to success is satisfaction.
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Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.
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I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.
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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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This stuff they are talking here in Congress costs the people of the United States $44 a page. That's beside what it costs to ship it to the asylums where it's read.
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We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?
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Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.
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Originality will be rewarded in any line.
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With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
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If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.
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Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.
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