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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.
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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