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Being interested is more important than being interesting.

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Ann Landers
Age: 83 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 4
Died: 2002
Died: June 22
Columnist
Journalist
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Sioux City
Iowa
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Esther Pauline Friedman
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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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Marriage is not a reform school.
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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.
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Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
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The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
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The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.
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It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
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Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
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Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.
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Love is friendship that has caught fire . . .
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Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.
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Never let an opportunity pass to give a well-deserved compliment.
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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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No person ever died by drowning in their own sweat.
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One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.
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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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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
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Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.
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Church is not a museum for Saints, but rather a hospital for sinners.
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