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First Quotes by Erma Bombeck
- My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
- Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
- The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada…
- For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the…
- Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in…
- I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a…
- 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…
- Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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