Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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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
names people adhesive
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
sleep bed care
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back
kissing long joy
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.
purses belly expenses
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
hands hats expenses
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.
desire height impossible
Impossible desires are the height of unreason.
money dirt
Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
faults sometimes sin
Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
envelopes
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
vanity four fifth
A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.
inevitable taxes
Death and taxes are inevitable.
cases circumstances
Circumstances alter cases.
punctuality sole
Punctuality is the sole of business.
gratitude grateful opposites
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.