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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.

Erma Bombeck

If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
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Chance God Growth Life Magic Moments Myself Pregnant
A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Family Fun Herself Mom Relationship Yourself
When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
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Beginning Children Room Yourself
Some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint – like a heartbeat. And pure love – why, some days it’s so quiet, you don’t even know it’s there.
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Care Deep Emotion Funny Hard Love Pride Quiet Reality Yourself
Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can’t see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
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Age Eye Kind Memories Old Perspective Thinking
How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?
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Buy Fate Funny Price Yourself
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Gift Morning Sad Spiritual Wake Up World
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
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Food Improvement Time
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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Death Doctor Funny Humor Inspirational Plant
A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn’t charge more after midnight – or anything before midnight.
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Kindess Night Oneself Parents Price
I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in your anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he’s recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
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Angry Book Children Family Funny Hands Kiss Myself Reading Theory Yourself
One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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Beginning Different Husband Vacation Wife
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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Believe Book Children Friendship Herself Library Myself
Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Advice Children Funny Yourself
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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Home Ideas Myself See Work
Cats invented self-esteem.
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Animal Cat Invention Worth

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