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Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em but I'd hate to own one.

— Will Rogers

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Although W. C. Fields used this phrase in Mississippi (1935 film), Will Rogers said it first in the 1918 Ziegfeld Follies as cited in the Sep. 1918 Green Book Magazine review of the Follies.

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