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No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
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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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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