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" There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. "
Erma Bombeck
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" I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. "
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" Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. "
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" Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. "
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" There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. "
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" Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go. "
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" I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. "
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" 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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" A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. "
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" I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it. "
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