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Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Age: 68 †
Born: 1796
Born: December 17
Died: 1865
Died: August 27
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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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Death and taxes are inevitable.
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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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Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
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