Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
ABIGAIL VAN BURENIf we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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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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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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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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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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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister.
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Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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Kissing power is stronger than will power.
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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
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