Affair Quote by Bret Harte

“When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.”

Bret Harte

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For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

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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…

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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…

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But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.

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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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“There was, I think, a prevailing impression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune was the result of the defective moral quality of…

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Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.

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Each lost day has its patron saint!

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

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I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience…

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The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

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My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.

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