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Quote by Erma Bombeck
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupatio

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. – Erma Bombeck

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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. – Erma Bombeck

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Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. – Erma Bombeck

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If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair. – Erma Bombeck

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. – Henry Brooks Adams

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