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Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
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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Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
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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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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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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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