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

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Social Comparison, Trying

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

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

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Social Comparison, Trying

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"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

"I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order."

"I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars."

"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."

"On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings."

"I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up."

"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'."

"In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet."

"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

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