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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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Children
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Taught

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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 never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
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Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.
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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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No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.
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