While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENIf you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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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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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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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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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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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
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There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
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Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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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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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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Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
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