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There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.
Will Rogers
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Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
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If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
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And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.
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Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.
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The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words.
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I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.
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Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
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America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else.
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The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
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The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
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A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?
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