The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.
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Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.Will Rogers
Money, horse racing and women, three things the boys just can't figure out.
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See what will happen to you if you don't stop biting your fingernails.
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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
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I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
Will Rogers
Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.
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