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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Age: 68 †
Born: 1796
Born: December 17
Died: 1865
Died: August 27
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Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.
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A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
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Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
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Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
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The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles and why should not other tourists do the same?
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The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.
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No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
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People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
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Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.
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Death and taxes are inevitable.
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Lawyers are like priests people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests they don't confess all their sins they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.
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Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
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Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
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Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
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It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
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Circumstances alter cases.
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He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.
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One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.
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