Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Quotes

• “I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here.”
• “We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.”
• “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.”
• “Circumstances alter cases.”
• “It seems to me, all created critters look down on each other. The British and French look down on the s, and colonists look down upon s and Indians, while we look down upon them all. It's the way of the world, I do suppose; but the road ain't a pleasant one.”
• “Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.”

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