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Wake up and smell the coffee.

Ann Landers

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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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Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
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What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
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Marriage is not a reform school.
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An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.
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What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.
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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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At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
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If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.
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Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.
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All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.
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