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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has.
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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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Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay a land tax whether it ever did or ever will earn you a penny. You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.
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Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out
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The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.
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I never met a man I didn't get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.
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Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.
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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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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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The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
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One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
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The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.
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Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
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If you are trying to get out of the hole, stop digging.
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My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out how much injun that made me, but there's nothing of which I am more proud than my Cherokee blood.
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There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
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I'll bet you the time ain't far off when a woman won't know any more than a man.
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Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
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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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The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
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