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A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
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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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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Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
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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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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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Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
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Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
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Just what part of meow don't you understand?
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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 spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.
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Punctuality is the sole of business.
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Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
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Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
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Wise men, like wine, are best when old pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
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Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
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I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
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Death and taxes are inevitable.
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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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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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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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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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