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• Una mujer tiene dos sonrisas que un ángel podría envidiar, la sonrisa que acepta al amante antes de que se pronuncien las palabras, y la sonrisa que ilumina al primogénito y le asegura el amor de una madre.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Happiness, Smile, Mom

  "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,

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• The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Travel, Rose, Tourists

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.17

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• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

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  Hope, Men, Bankers

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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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  Mean, Rich, Economy

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.279

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• A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.

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  Vanity, Four, Fifth

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• Just what part of meow don't you understand?

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Gato

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• Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

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  Government, Favoritism, Natural

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• No hay nada como la diversión, ¿verdad? Yo no tengo ninguna, pero me gusta en los demás.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Fun, Mirth, Enjoyment

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.56, New York : Stringer and Townsend

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• Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

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  Contentment, Indolence, Refined

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• We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

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  Luxury, Surrender, Articles

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ...”, p.19

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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 of the other in not knowing what he does.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Ignorancia, Conocimiento, Hombres

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• La esperanza es un conocido agradable, pero un amigo inseguro.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hope, Safety, Acquaintance

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.281

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• People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

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  People, Fool, Relation

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.185

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• Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

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  Character, Men, Loud

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• Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

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  Air, Wish, Castles

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• El fastidio es la envoltura de la falta de delicadeza.

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  Sobres

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and human nature. By the author of "Sam Slick the clockmaker" ...”, p.188

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• We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

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  Dollars, Hours, Minutes

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ...”, p.17

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• Punctuality is the sole of business.

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  Punctuality, Sole

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• As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

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  Dresses, Elements, Manners

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• He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

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  Sports, Missing, May

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• Circumstances alter cases.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Cases, Circumstances

  "The Old Judge, Or Life in a Colony". Book by Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1849.

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• Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.

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  People, Pay, Facts

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• Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

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  Money, Dirt

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• One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Fool, Philosopher, Sometimes

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• Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

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  Faults, Sometimes, Sin

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