Thomas Chandler Haliburton Quotes
The really loyal people ... don't talk about it everlastingly.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1796-1865, Canadian Judge & Political Satirist, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife, 1840
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The children won't leave without me; I won't leave without the King]; and the King will never leave.
Asked about the possibility of the royal family evacuating London during the WWII blitz when London was being bombed regularly.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
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.