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" By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. "

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" Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. "

" If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia. "

" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "

" We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. "

" A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. "

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" You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. "

" Hell is a half-filled auditorium. "

" Humor is the most engaging cowardice. "

" If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. "

" A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. "

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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. "

" You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. "

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" Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. "

" A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. "

" The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. "

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" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "