The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENYou are what you are when nobody is looking.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
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Kissing power is stronger than will power.
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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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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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I can’t think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
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In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
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Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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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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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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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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Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to “prove their love” like a moose needs a hat rack.
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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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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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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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