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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.
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Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss.
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.
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Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
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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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'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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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
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Tolerance is the uncomfortable feeling that in the end the other could be right.
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