"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government."

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Source : Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840). “The Letter-bag of the Great Western; of Life in a Steamer”, p.173

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Happiness Quotes #Country Quotes #Character Quotes

“The best thing to do with a bad smell is to get rid of it.”
“Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.”
“You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.”
“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”
“We just have to go after our game plan.”
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”

Source : Tikkun magazine, July-August 1989.
“The letter kills the spirit. The written text is mute in the face of responding challenge. It does not admit of inward growth and correction. Text subverts the absolutely vital role of memory.”
“Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.”

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