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“Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.”

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“Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.”

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Source: Family - The Ties that Bind...And Gag!

“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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Source: Family - The Ties that Bind...And Gag!

“The grass is always greener over the septic tank.”

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Title of book (1976)