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• A temperate anger has virtue in it.

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  Anger, Virtue

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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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  Travel, Rose, Tourists

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.17

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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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  Hope, Men, Bankers

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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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  Mean, Rich, Economy

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.279

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• A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.

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  Vanity, Four, Fifth

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• Just what part of meow don't you understand?

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  Cat

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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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  Government, Favoritism, Natural

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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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  Fun, Mirth, Enjoyment

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.56, New York : Stringer and Townsend

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• Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

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  Contentment, Indolence, Refined

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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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  Luxury, Surrender, Articles

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ...”, p.19

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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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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

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

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  Hope, Safety, Acquaintance

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.281

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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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  People, Fool, Relation

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.185

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• Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

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  Character, Men, Loud

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• Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

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  Air, Wish, Castles

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• Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

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  Envelopes

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and human nature. By the author of "Sam Slick the clockmaker" ...”, p.188

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• We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

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  Dollars, Hours, Minutes

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ...”, p.17

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• Punctuality is the sole of business.

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  Punctuality, Sole

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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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  Dresses, Elements, Manners

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• Circumstances alter cases.

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  Cases, Circumstances

  "The Old Judge, Or Life in a Colony". Book by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1849.

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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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  People, Pay, Facts

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• Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

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  Money, Dirt

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• One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

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  Fool, Philosopher, Sometimes

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• Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

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  Faults, Sometimes, Sin

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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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  Spiders, Lawyer

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (2009). “The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville”, p.169, New Canadian Library

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