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Bret Harte Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Men, Sight, Soldier

Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.27, VM eBooks

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

Arsenic, Sticks, Habit

Bret Harte (2016). “Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist”, p.82, VM eBooks

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.

Writing, Together, Letters

Bret Harte (1902). “Condensed Novels: New Burlesques”

Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

Dark, Wish, Deceit

'The Heathen Chinee: Plain Language from Truthful James' (1870)

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