“Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.”
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Famous Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes
“People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.”
Source: Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife
Source: The Letter-bag of the Great Western; of Life in a Steamer
“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