A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost
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A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Robert Frost
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Robert Frost
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Robert Frost
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Robert Frost
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But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost
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Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
Robert Frost
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Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost
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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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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.
Robert Frost
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
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The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
Robert Frost
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The only certain freedom's in departure.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
Robert Frost
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
Robert Frost
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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost
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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost
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They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert Frost
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Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost
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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost
