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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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Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.
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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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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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Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.
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Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
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If at first you do succeed, try something harder.
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Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
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Make somebody happy today, and mind your own business
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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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In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.
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Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.
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Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.
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Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
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Some women have the best husbands. Others make the best of the husbands they have.
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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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I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
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It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.
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Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.
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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
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Life is rough for everyone....Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others.
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