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You are what you are when nobody is looking.

Abigail Van Buren

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you’re supervised or not; finish a job once it’s started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
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Ability Bear Finishes Job Maturity Start Supervise
The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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Friendship Less Life Listen Love More Talk
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don’t live up to the expectations we have of them.
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Bridge Disappointment Enable Gap Women
So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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Loneliness Lonely Poorest Poverty Rich Ultimate
So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
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Day Diet Lost New Temper Today Wagon Yesterday
It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
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Girl Hat Kissing Moose Need Power Prove Stronger
A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It’s cruel, it’s brutal, it’s inhumane, and most people don’t want it.
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Abuse Animal Death Defense Mutilation People Subject Unconscionable
It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister.
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Born Lowa Sister Speak True Twin
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.
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You could move.’ —“Dear Abby” responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.
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If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.
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You are what you are when nobody is looking.
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