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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's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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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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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.
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Women who miscalculate are called mothers.
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
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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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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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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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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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Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not finish a job once it's started carry money without spending it and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
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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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I can't think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
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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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Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to prove their love like a moose needs a hat rack.
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Some People are more turned on by money than they are by love. In one respect they're alike. They're both wonderful as long as they last.
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