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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
Spent
Vision
Fire
Telescope
House
Telescopes
Proceeds
Insurance
Burned

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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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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
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What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.
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The truly educated can listen to any view without losing their temper or self-confidence.
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Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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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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'Warm in December, cold in June, you say?' I don't suppose the water's changed at all. You and I know enough to know it's warm Compared with cold, and cold compared with warm. But all the fun's in how you say a thing.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.
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Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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End is a gloomy word.
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Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
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Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.
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Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
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