Quotes by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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A suspicious parent makes an artful child.
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What a sight there is in that word "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile: but above all, a smile of love.
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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 baby, and assures it of a mother’s love.
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Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.Â
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What a sight there is in that “smile!” it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.
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Nature’s bank-dividends.
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Every man’s religion is his own, and nobody else’s business.
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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.
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Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature’s laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience.
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Just what part of meow don’t you understand?
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