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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.

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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