“Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

— Will Rogers

Nationally syndicated column number 90, From Nuts To The Soup (31 August 1924); published in The New York Times http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50A12F83D551B7A93C3AA1783D85F408285F9
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American humorist and entertainer 1879–1935

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