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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Age: 68 †
Born: 1796
Born: December 17
Died: 1865
Died: August 27
Historian
Judge
Politician
Writer
Windsor
Nova Scotia
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A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
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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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Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
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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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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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Nature's bank-dividends.
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We can do without any article of luxury we have never had but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
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A temperate anger has virtue in it.
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Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.
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There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
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Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.
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The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles and why should not other tourists do the same?
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Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
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A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
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Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.
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Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
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Punctuality is the sole of business.
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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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