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Plain Language from Truthful James (1870)
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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,
Which the same I would rise to explain.
Bret Harte
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Born:
August 25, 1836
Died:
May 5, 1902
(aged 65)
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