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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Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
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Ceremony is all backbone.
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A temperate anger has virtue in it.
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Fact is stranger than fiction.
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I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
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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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We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.
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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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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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Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
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When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
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A college education shows a man how little other people know.