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
"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
"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
"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market."	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 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
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."	Art
"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."	Art
"Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before."	Friendship, Dreams
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."	Wisdom
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."	Anti-God, Attitude
"There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will."	Food
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