Thomas Chandler Haliburton - The clockmaker (1836)

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We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

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

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

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

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