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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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When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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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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If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air.
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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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Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.
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A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.
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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.
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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
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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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One of the lies would make it out that nothing Ever presents itself before us twice. Where would we be at last if that were so? Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
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