It's not that they were bad. It's because it was a really tough puzzle.


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WILL DURANT
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
WILL ROGERS
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoir...
WILL ROGERS
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- w...
WILL ROGERS
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...
WILL ROGERS
Compared to them I
WILL ROGERS
The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up...
WILL ROGERS
We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR C...
WILL ROGERS
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
GEORGE WILL
My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
WILL ROGERS
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
WILL DURANT
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
WILL ROGERS
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
WILL ROGERS
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
GEORGE WILL
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction...
GEORGE WILL
I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
WILL ROGERS
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee m...
GEORGE WILL
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say foot...
GEORGE WILL
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
GEORGE WILL
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT
The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal...
WILL ROGERS
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.
WILL ROGERS
There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberat...
WILL ROGERS
A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at...
WILL ROGERS
The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?
WILL ROGERS
Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many America...
GEORGE WILL
The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.
WILL ROGERS
Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
WILL ROGERS
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
WILL ROGERS