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No person who can read is ever successful at cleaning out an attic.
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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
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Esther Pauline Friedman
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Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them.
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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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The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
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Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.
Ann Landers
I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.
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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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guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.
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The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
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Some men have no idea how to romance a woman. However, women who teach their husbands what they like will be well-rewarded.
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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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The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.
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No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.
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Grown-up people can wait.
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You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
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Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.
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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
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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.
Ann Landers
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.
Ann Landers
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
Ann Landers
