Quotes by Will Rogers

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Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.
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 nostalgia  

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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
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 how-true  

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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate. Now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
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 government  

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The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.
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 politics  politicians  

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I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
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 dogs  

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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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 human-rights  

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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
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 america  

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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
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 education  

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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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 arizona  

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You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
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 gambling  horses  

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I've found without question that the best way to lead others to a more plant-based diet is by example - to lead with your fork, not your mouth.
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 vegetarianism  

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I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.
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People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
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What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
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 america  

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People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
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 anger  

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Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
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Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.
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 feminism  

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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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 winter  

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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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 integrity  

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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
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 tax  

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The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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 effort  

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Never miss a good chance to shut up.
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 speaking  

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If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
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 dogs  

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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
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