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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.
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The trees that have it in their pent-up buds To darken nature and be summer woods.
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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
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Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.
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