“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
“Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.”
As quoted in A Touch of Class (2003) by Carol Vanderheyden, p. 60.
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