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

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  Inspirational, Precious Stones, Mind

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• Punctuality is the soul of business.

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  Soul, Punctuality

  "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Book by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1859.

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• Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

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  Wise, Wine, Men

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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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• If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

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  Hands, Hats, Expenses

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• There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.

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  Order, Harmony, Harmony In Music

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• Death and taxes are inevitable.

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  Inevitable, Taxes

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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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  Self, Discipline, Denial

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.219

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• Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

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  Evil, Anxiety, Over Confidence

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• Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

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  People, Perfect, Genius

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

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  Cat

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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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• 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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• A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

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  Happiness, Smile, Mom

  "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,

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

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  Sleep, Bed, Care

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.203

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

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  Humorous, Names, People

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.51

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

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  Crazy, Anger, Men

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.85

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• The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

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  Inspirational, Children, Parent

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• If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

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  Gossip, Rumor, Half

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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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  Happiness, Country, Character

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Letter-bag of the Great Western; of Life in a Steamer”, p.173

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• Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

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  Contentment, Indolence, Refined

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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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  Husband, Law, Doe

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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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  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented”, p.146

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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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• Fact is stranger than fiction.

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  Humanity, Fiction, Facts

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