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How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

Erma Bombeck

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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Happiness Hurt Laughter Pain Tragedy
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
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Courage Humor Inspirational Laughter Need Reward Tragedy Yourself
Never have more children than you have car windows.
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Advice Children Funny 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
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
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Food Funny Humor Moments Woman
If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.
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Inspirational Laughter Yourself
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
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Courage Dream Kindness Yourself
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
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Clothes Growth Parents Yourself
Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
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Determination Difference Fame Greatness Success
A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
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Family Fun Herself Mom Relationship 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
I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It’s just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.
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Death Experience Food Funny Hope Humor Man Myself Pieces Travel
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
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End God Hope Inspirational Life Motivational Myself Success Talent
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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Food Preparation Thankful Time
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
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Children Expectation Funny Life Oneself Sarcastic
Friends are “annuals” that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a “perennial” that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There’s a place in the garden for both of them.
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Endurance Family Friendship Funny Garden Place

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