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.
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.
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
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