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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.

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Freedom lies in being bold.

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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

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

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

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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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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

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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.

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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

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Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.

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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

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One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

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Is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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

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I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

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