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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.

Abigail Van Buren

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
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Alone Being Feeling Loneliness Lonely Poverty Ultimate
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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Advice Commentary Dad Inspiring Mom Sad Seek
Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Automatic Inspirational Nothing True Wine Wisdom Wrinkle
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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Children Family Inspirational Money Success
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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Free Help Pay Pipe Religion Water Women
Kids grow up awfully fast these days,”she said. “You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
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Awfully Grow Inspirational Kid Motivational Relationship Suicide
Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
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Breathing Chew Hate Less More Talk Yoga
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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Castor Down Matter Oil Psychotherapy Useless Work
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
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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I can’t think of a more potent combination than God and a good lawyer.
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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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Ash Compalined Couple Gay Moving Reader Respond
If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
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Lose Sure Value Women
A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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Bad Disappear Habit Inspirational Miraculously Undo
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 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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Character Family Friendship Good Life Person

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