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

-Bret Harte
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For, he (The Devil) observed, the issue of the great battle of Good and Evil had been otherwise settled, as he would presently show him. "It wants but a few moments of night," he continued, "and over this interval of twilight, as you know, I have been given complete control. Look to t . . . Read more

-Bret Harte
The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius invoked against all contingent evils, but especially against bears, which, like the fiery dragons of old, seemed to cherish unconquerable hostility to th . . . Read more

-Bret Harte
There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger.

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I've had some mighty mean moments afore I kem to this spot,--Lost on the plains in '50, drowned almost, and shot;But out on this alkali desert, a hunting a crazy wife,Was ra'ly as on-satis-factory as anything in my life.

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Nellie was a good girl, and I think had a sort of quiet respect for old Fagg's unobtrusiveness. But her fancy was already taken captive by Rattler's superficial qualities, which were obvious and pleasing. I don't think Nellie was any worse than you or I. We are more apt to take acquai . . . Read more

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There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous.

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Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again.' He then handed him his money back, pushed him gently from the room, and so made a devoted slave of Tom Simson.

-Bret Harte
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