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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
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House
Telescope
Telescopes
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Insurance
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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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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Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
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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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For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
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Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
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God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh) God found I wasn't there At least not over half.
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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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Writing a poem is discovering.
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The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
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A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
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