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Syntax must be bad, having sin and tax in it.

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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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William Penn Adair Rogers
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Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year.
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If Wall Street paid a tax on every “game” they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.
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Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.
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We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.
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I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.
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A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.
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Wish all the Farmers would move to town one year, that's the only way I know to clear the thing up.
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.
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I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.
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There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
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The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the President has to tell 'em.
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There is something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing.
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I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
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Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.
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