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Which I wish to remark,--
And my language is plain,--
That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

Francis Bret Harte

Ah Sin was his name.

Francis Bret Harte

With the smile that was childlike and bland.

Francis Bret Harte

We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor.

Francis Bret Harte

He smiled a kind of sickly smile and curled up on the floor
And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.

Francis Bret Harte

With unpronounceable awful names.

Francis Bret Harte

For there be women, fair as she,
Whose verbs and nouns do more agree.

Francis Bret Harte

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

Bret Harte

Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.

Bret Harte

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Bret Harte

Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.

Walter Harte

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