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Bret Harte

writer, poet, journalist, typesetter, playwright, prose writer

1836 – 1902

Bret Harte was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches.

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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Bret Harte

Well, no offense:In gittin' riled.

Bret Harte

Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

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Later, when we were forced to accept the fact that finding gold was really the primary object of a gold-mining company, we still remained there

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And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

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And he says that the mountains are fairerFor once being held in your thought;

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Don't be too quickLike the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

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There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death,

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Each lost day has its patron saint!

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Virtue always meets reward,But quicker when it wears a sword;

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