Robert Frost

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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."	Education
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."	Education
"College is a refuge from hasty judgment."	Education
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."	Family
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."	Success, Life
"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."	Family
"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."	Success, Life
"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness."	Philosophy
"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness."	Wisdom
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."	Philosophy
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."	Wisdom
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."	Art
"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."	Art
"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."	Art
"If you can bear at your age the honor of being made president of the United States, I ought to be able at my age to bear the honor of taking some part in your inauguration. I may not be equal to it but I can accept it for my cause-the arts, poetry-now for the first time taken into the affairs of statesmen."	Art
"I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents."	Art
"Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation � Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power."	Art
"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."	Art
"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."	Art
"[Style is] that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying�. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward."	Art
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