"One big vice in a man is apt……" — Bret Harte
"One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones."
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15 Quotes by Bret Harte
Bret Harte has 15 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
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Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
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A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.
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If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we…
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Each lost day has its patron saint!
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The dominant expression of a child is gravity.
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Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that…
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The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And…
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Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
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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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A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
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Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity
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More Apt Quotes
This quote is filed under Apt Quotes,
one of 410 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil…
— Aristotle
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
— Joseph Addison
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let…
— Buffalo Bill
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women,…
— Sherman Alexie
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
— Lord Chesterfield
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to…
— Maya Angelou
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Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
— Ivan Pavlov
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I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
— Alexander Hamilton
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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
— Mark Twain
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Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to…
— Oswald Chambers
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