One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
—Bret Harte
Topics: Vice
Over the trackless past, somewhere, lie the lost days of our tropic youth.
—Bret Harte
Topics: Youth
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
—Bret Harte
Topics: Sorrow
Never a lip is curved with pain
That can’t be kissed into smile again.
—Bret Harte
Topics: Pain, Kiss
A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.
—Bret Harte
Topics: Freedom
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