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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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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
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Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
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Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
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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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Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.
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The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.
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We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.
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You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
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When you're through learning, you're through.
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Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.
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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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You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
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Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.
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The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.
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That's the trouble with our charities we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.
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