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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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A successful marriage is not a gift it is an achievement.
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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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