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" To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. "
Robert Frost
Profession
Poet
Condition
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" In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. "
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" 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. "
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" You can't get too much winter in the winter. "
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" 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. "
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" A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. "
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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. "
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" A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. "
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" A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. "
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Republican
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