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Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark, open the door and it's off for ever. The bird that roams through the sky and the grove unrestrained, knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself, but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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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.

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