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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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You're all you've got.
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A husband is a man who wishes he had as much fun when he goes on business trips as his wife thinks he does.
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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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Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.
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If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
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I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.
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Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
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Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.
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Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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A successful marriage is not a gift it is an achievement.
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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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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say “I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.” Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words , “This too shall pass.”
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Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
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Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
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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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At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
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Maintaining self-respect in the face of a devastating experience is of prime importance.
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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
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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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