If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
ABIGAIL VAN BURENMaturity 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.
More Abigail Van Buren Quotes
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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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A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it’s an undo-it-yourself project.
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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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If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
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Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you’re prepared to lose.
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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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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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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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The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.
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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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In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.
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If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
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Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
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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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