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Erma Bombeck Quotes: Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
         

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.


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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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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.



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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.



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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.



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Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.



Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.



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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.





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