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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.
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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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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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
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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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No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
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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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Wise men, like wine, are best when old pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
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Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
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