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There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe...

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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain - That for ways that are dark And for tricks t...

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Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, 'It might have been,'More sad are these we daily...

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The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and...

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For, he (The Devil) observed, the issue of the great battle of Good and Evil had been otherwise sett...

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One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

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Bret Harte

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Born: 1836-08-25

Died: 1902-05-06

Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1839 – May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.More