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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.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over.
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I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate wilfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.
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