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

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  Vanity, Four, Fifth

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

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  People, Perfect, Genius

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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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• A temperate anger has virtue in it.

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  Anger, Virtue

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

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  Cat

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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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• 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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• Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

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  Contentment, Indolence, Refined

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• An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.

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  Strong, Imagination, May

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Sports, Missing, May

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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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• 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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• Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

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  Money, Dirt

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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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• 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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