Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes

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A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Shiel, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and so on. These men are all upper crust here.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I
do like it in others. O, we need it. We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton