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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
Ann Landers
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Ann Landers
Age: 83 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 4
Died: 2002
Died: June 22
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Sioux City
Iowa
Ann Landers
Esther Pauline Friedman
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Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.
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Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.' Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because that person is comfortable with himself.
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Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
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It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.
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Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.
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Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
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Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
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If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
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Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.
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If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.
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Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
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Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
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Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.
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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
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Are you better off with him or without him?
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Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
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If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.
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It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.
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