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The sidelong glance is what you depend on.

Robert Frost

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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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Sidelong
Glance
Glances
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already. Actual Twents: At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene. Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
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For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
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Nature is always hinting at us.
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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense.
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
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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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