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There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Age: 68 †
Born: 1796
Born: December 17
Died: 1865
Died: August 27
Historian
Judge
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Windsor
Nova Scotia
Proportion
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Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
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Lawyers are like priests people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests they don't confess all their sins they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.
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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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One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.
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Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
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