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Just what part of meow don't you understand?

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Age: 68 †
Born: 1796
Born: December 17
Died: 1865
Died: August 27
Historian
Judge
Politician
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Windsor
Nova Scotia
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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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Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.
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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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