Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
Fact is stranger than fiction. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Fact is stranger than fiction.
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.
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