Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.”
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“Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.”
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“Punctuality is the soul of business.”
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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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“Punctuality is the sole of business.”
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“It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.”
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“Money is a necessity; so is dirt.”
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“Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.”
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“Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.”
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“People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.”
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“Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.”
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“Life ain't all beer and skittles.”
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“What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.”
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“Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.”
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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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“Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.”
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“[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.”
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“There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.”
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“To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back”
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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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“Just what part of meow don't you understand?”
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“Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.”
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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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“Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.”
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“Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.”
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“There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.”
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“Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.”
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“When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.”
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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