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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
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
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Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
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If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.
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There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue 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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I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.
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If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
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Steak on the plate went up. Steak on the hoof went down.
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The farmers can be thankful. Didn't the Farm Board decide in Washington last week that they could have cheaper interest? All the farmers have to do now is to find something new to put up as security.
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You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.
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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
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We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
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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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Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office.
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