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• If a chap seems bent on cheatin’ himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.

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• I was always well mounted. I am fond of a horse, and always piqued myself on having the fastest trotter in the Province. I have made no great progress in the world. I feel doubly, therefore, the pleasure of not being surpassed on the road.

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•  A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.

   

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• A college education shows a man how little other people know.

   

   

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• Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

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• Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

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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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• Punctuality is the soul of business.

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• Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

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• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

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• The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

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• To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

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• When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.

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• Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton (14)

Birth:	17th December, 1796
Death:	27th August, 1865
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Author, Judge, Politician

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