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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

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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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Democrat
Always
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Deserve
Republican
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Parenting

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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
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You're searching... For things that don't exist I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings - there are no such things. There are only middles.
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Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
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It was far in the sameness of the wood I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.
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When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
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There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.
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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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