Bret Harte Road

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    And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor,
    And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
    —Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
    —Francis Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    I reside at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James;
    I am not up to small deceit, or any sinful games;
    And I’ll tell in simple language what I know about the row
    That broke up our society upon the Stanislow.
    But first I would remark, that it is not a proper plan
    For any scientific man to whale his fellow-man,
    —Bret Harte (1836–1902)

    A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)