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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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On prohibiting anybody from learning anything: Why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
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I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.
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