Hands Quote by Robert Frost

“You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.” quote by Robert Frost — Download Open image

“You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.”

Robert Frost

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Hands Hate Know how Knows Love Love & hate Made Mankind Nature of man Strikes

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