“Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.”
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Famous Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes
Source: Nature and Human Nature
“Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.”
Source: Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented
Source: Nature and Human Nature
Source: The Letter-bag of the Great Western; of Life in a Steamer
“Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.”
Source: Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented
“If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?”
“Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.”
Source: Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented
“To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back”
Source: Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife
“There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.”
“[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.”
“It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.”
Source: Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife