Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes
Fact is stranger than fiction.
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler. Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances. Hurst and Blackett, 1853, p. 11.
This saying is attributed to Burke, but see {596187} for a more accurate version.
At the time McCarthy made this statement he was suffering from an advanced state of alcoholism. He was censured. See {619921}.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a Nova Scotian politician, judge, and author. He made an important political contribution to the state of Nova Scotia before its entry into Confederation of Canada. He was the first international best-selling author of fiction from what is now Canada. In 1856, he emigrated to England, where he served as a Conservative Member of Parliament. He was the father of the British civil servant Lord Haliburton and of the anthropologist Robert Grant Haliburton.
