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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.

Abigail Van Buren

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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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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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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.
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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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How should they answer?
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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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It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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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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SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, Loneliness is the ultimate poverty
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
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