True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENThe 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.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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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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If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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I agree that marijuana laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of marijuana – if it’s prescribed by a physician.
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How should they answer?
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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 almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
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It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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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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The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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