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In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

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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
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Pampered

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Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.
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One of the characteristics of the young is I want it now.
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I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.
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People have one year after the wedding to send a gift. Thank-you notes must be written immediately. If you don't receive an acknowledgment within three months, phone and ask if it was received. If the bride and groom are embarrassed, fine. They deserve to be.
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If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say I have done my best, then you are a success.
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Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
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