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Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Age: 68 †
Born: 1796
Born: December 17
Died: 1865
Died: August 27
Historian
Judge
Politician
Writer
Windsor
Nova Scotia
Skittles
Beer
Life

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Wise men, like wine, are best when old pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
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Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
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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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Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
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Just what part of meow don't you understand?
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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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Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
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There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.
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There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
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Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
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Punctuality is the sole of business.
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I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
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Circumstances alter cases.
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
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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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As soon as a woman begins to dress loud, her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
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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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When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
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