Robert Frost

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"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it starts to rain."	Business
"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
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."	Anti-God, Attitude
"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."	Art
"College is a refuge from hasty judgment."	Education
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."	Wisdom
"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."	Education
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."	Education
"Forgive, O Lord, any little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."	Fear
"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."	Art
"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."	Art
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."	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
"I had a lover's quarrel with the world."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."	Art
"I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."	Poetry
"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."	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
"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married."	Marriage
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