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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.
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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Windsor
Nova Scotia
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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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It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
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When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
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Life ain't all beer and skittles.
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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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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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We can do without any article of luxury we have never had but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.
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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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There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it. We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart why should we exclude the light from them?
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There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.
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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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