American author Bret Harte (The Outcasts of Poker Flat) was born on this day in 1836.
"He hadn't a sincere fiber in him," Mark Twain wrote of Harte. "I think his heart was merely a pump and had no other function."
Monday, August 25, 2008
Sincerely yours, Samuel Clemens
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