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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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I do not see why I should e’er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.
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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
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But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.
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Come grow old with me, for the best is yet to come!
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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End is a gloomy word.
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
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Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never really stars at heart) Achieve at times a very star-like start. Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
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