miles to go before I sleep
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But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
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As the cheers welled around him, the once and future Prune Minister quoted from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening: "I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."
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He talked about being "thrilled by the prospects lying ahead" and used the line of the Yankee poet Robert Frost about having "promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep."
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During the 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy would end his set political speech by saying: "But I have miles to go before I sleep."
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I can't say: "miles to go before I sleep", Because the last sleep is not in my grip.
From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by Narayanan, A. R.
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