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Circumstances alter cases.

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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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As soon as a woman begins to dress loud, her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
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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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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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A temperate anger has virtue in it.
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Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
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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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Death and taxes are inevitable.
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Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
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Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
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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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Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
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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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Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
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It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
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The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.
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I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
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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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Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
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Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
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A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
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