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Marriage is not a reform school.

Ann Landers

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Ann Landers
Age: 83 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 4
Died: 2002
Died: June 22
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Sioux City
Iowa
Ann Landers
Esther Pauline Friedman
Reform
Marriage
School

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People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
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Remember, it takes two to make an argument. The one who is wrong is the one who will be doing most of the talking.
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Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
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If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
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People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.
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Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, I was wrong. And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, I told you so.
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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”
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I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.
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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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No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.
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A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.
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A successful marriage is not a gift it is an achievement.
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Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.
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The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.
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Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
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Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.
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You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
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