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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Abigail Van Buren

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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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Kids grow up awfully fast these days,she said. You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
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If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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You could move.' ---Dear Abby responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it.
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Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
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It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
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