"If it were not for a goodly supply……" — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
"If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?"
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34 Quotes by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton has 34 quotes on this site.
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There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual…
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
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Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already,…
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A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance…
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No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
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Punctuality is the soul of business.
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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
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Just what part of meow don't you understand?
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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
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The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in…
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The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
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Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only…
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in…
— Sai Baba
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
— Russell Baker
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never…
— Stanley Baldwin
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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it…
— Alan Ball
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I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask…
— Roseanne Barr
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of…
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It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and…
— John Belushi
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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