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

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


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The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.



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A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.



Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.



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



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The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.



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

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 see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'



The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.



For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.



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Each lost day has its patron saint!





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The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise

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