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WILL ROGERS WISE AND WITTY SAYINGS OF A GREAT AMERICAN HUMORIST

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Will Rogers has no peer in America today, Rogers was a populist who is actually smart and wise, which is currently a contradiction in terms. Today's populists compromise theirselves by their loyalty to a political party. Rogers on the other hand was an equal opportunity skewerer of either party when they threatened the well-being of the common man.

About the only peer today would be Bill Maher for the country's intellegsia, however due to the fragmentation of the media, we have no common spokesperson for populism, our loss.

This is the Hallmark Edition and with contains not just the most popular of his sayings and excerpts from his newspaper columns, but also a great number of photographs of Mr. Rogers. What's especially fascinating is how timely many of these sayings are even today, like the following in the foreign policy section:

"No nation has a monopoly of good things. Each has something the others could well afford to adopt.",

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"Several papers have asked, 'What would Europe do if we (the U.S.) were in difficulties and needed help?' So this is in reply to those inquires: 'Europe would hold a celebration' ".

Here's a sample of the wisdom: "The two finest things that can happen to a man is to have a good wife and to know that he's accepted by the people he comes from."

This a tiny book packed with wisdom and hilarity, highly recommended to put out where it can reviewed when a spare amount is available.

Will Rogers is one of the best known of the homespun humorists and from this collection, it is easy to understand why. He does not have to shout, use obscenities or even talk all that negatively about people. What he does is take the everyday experiences of the common people and give them a reason to laugh about the way the world is.
His humor is of the kind that has people nodding their heads in agreement and saying, "That's right, that's right."
Even though he died over 70 years ago, his humor is still topical for despite the great technical progress many aspects of American society have not changed. Rogers criticizes the lawyers, bankers and politicians of his era and everything he says still applies. True wisdom survives for decades because it describes the universal realities rather than the short-term news of the day. Using this as a basis, Will Rogers was a very wise man.