Bret Harte was born on 8/25/1836.

Bret Harte, 1862.

“If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, ‘It might have been,’/More sad are these we daily see: ‘It is, but hadn’t ought to be.”-Bret Harte

Truman Capote died on 8/25/1984.

Truman Capote, 1959, by Roger Higgins.

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”-Truman Capote