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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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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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Wise men, like wine, are best when old pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
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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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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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No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
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Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
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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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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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Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
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I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
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