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It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Age: 68 †
Born: 1796
Born: December 17
Died: 1865
Died: August 27
Historian
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Nova Scotia
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