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Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

— Joan Rivers Misattributed

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People say money is not the key to happiness, but I've always figured if you have enough money you can get a key made.

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It's been so long since I made love, I can't even remember who gets tied up.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

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Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly—hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

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I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

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