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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
Writer
Sioux City
Iowa
Ann Landers
Esther Pauline Friedman
People
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People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.
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The minute more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret.
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Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.
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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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A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.
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An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.
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