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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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Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
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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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Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
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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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Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.
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Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
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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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Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
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A temperate anger has virtue in it.
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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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Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
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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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Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
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Death and taxes are inevitable.
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