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You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.
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The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.
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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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President Coolidge said, 'I don't want the Government to go into business.' Well, if I was Mr. Coolidge I wouldn't worry over that. The Government never has been accused of being a business man.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.
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A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.
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