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Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

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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
Ann Landers
Esther Pauline Friedman
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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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I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.
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Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.
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Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.
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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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One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends if they seem OK, then you're the one.
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One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.
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Being interested is more important than being interesting.
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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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Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.
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If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.
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I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
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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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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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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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If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
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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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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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An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.
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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
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