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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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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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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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I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
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Just what part of meow don't you understand?
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Wise men, like wine, are best when old pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
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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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A temperate anger has virtue in it.
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Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
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Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
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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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It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
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Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
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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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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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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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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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There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
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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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