Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburtonwas a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author. Politically, he played a significant role in the history of Nova Scotia prior to its entry into Confederation. Literarily, he was the first international best-selling author from what is now Canada...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth17 December 1796
CountryCanada
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A college education shows a man how little other people know.
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When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
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Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
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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 woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
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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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We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.
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I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
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Fact is stranger than fiction.
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Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
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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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A temperate anger has virtue in it.
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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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A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.