Thomas Chandler Haliburton

About Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here.”
— Sam Slick in England (1835), Ch. XXIV; “Sam Slick” first appeared in a weekly paper of Nova Scotia, 1835. Comparable to: "Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand", Cooper: The Ways of the Hour, chap. vi. (1850); "At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city" N. P. Willis, Necessity for a Promenade Drive.
“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.”
— , in Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented, Volumen 1 (1853), p. 185, .
“Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.”
— Wise-saws : or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife (1856), p. 179.
“Punctuality [...] is the soul of business.”
— Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Hurst and Blackett, 1859, p. 31.
“We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.”
— Ch. 2, p. 10. Compare: "Remember that time is money" in "Advice to a Young Tradesman" (1748) by Benjamin Franklin
“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.”
— Ch. 2, p. 15

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