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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.

— Will Rogers

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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

A man that don't love a Horse, there is something the matter with him. If he has no sympathy for the man that does love Horses, then there is something worse the matter with him.

The Illiterate Digest (1924)

We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that's overfilled with everything we want.

You've got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one.

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