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The only pose in Will Rogers was the pretense that
he was an ignorant and illiterate fellow. Actually he
was nothing of the sort. As he once remarked, "We
are all of us ignorant, but not about the same things."
Though he made a bluff at concealing it, his writings
from time to time betrayed an exceedingly wide
knowledge. Whether he was conscious of it or not,
the system behind his humor was an exceedingly old
one. It can be described in one word--Truth. It is
one of the most ancient formulæ of the Comic Spirit.
As Max Eastman has remarked: "Truth is a chief
source of the joy motive in popular jokes. . . . We
are always hungry for the simple truth."

That, in the last analysis, is what Will Rogers
gave us.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom. Contributors: P. J. O'Brien - author, Lowell Thomas - author. Publisher: John C. Winston. Place of Publication: Philadelphia. Publication Year: 1935. Page Number: 8.
    
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