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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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Nova Scotia
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