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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.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton The Clockmaker (1838)

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Always judge your fellow passengers to be the opposite of what they strive to appear to be.

When a man is wrong, and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

A woman that is all smiles and graces is a vixen at heart; snakes fascinate.

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.

The Clockmaker (1838)

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