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Punctuality is the sole of business.
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
Punctuality
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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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Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
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When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
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Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
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Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
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Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
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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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People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
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Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
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