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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 Englan

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Bret Harte
Age: 65 †
Born: 1836
Born: August 25
Died: 1902
Died: May 6
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Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Typesetter
Writer
Albany
New York
Francis Bret Harte
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Scholar
Printers
Though
Customs
Foolishly
Write
Jump
Printer
Together
Conclusion
Pronounced
Writing
Letters
Hasty
Never
English
Misuse
Like
England
Custom
Speech
Joined

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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.
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Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.
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Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!
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One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
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Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
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Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.
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But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.
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Each lost day has its patron saint!
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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!'
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A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.
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