“It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.”
            Walker Percy Redivivus" (1971), p. 130 
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
        
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                        “Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.”
Source: The Sorcerer in the North
 
                            
                        
                        
                        Source: Connie Robertson (1998). Book of Humorous Quotations. p. 2
 
                            
                        
                        
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                                        Jenkins, Chris,  Chi Cubs 6, Milwaukee 3 http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=270407108, Yahoo! Sports, Retrieved on June 15, 2007 
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                        “Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”
                                        
                                        As quoted in Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations (1994) <!-- cited either to "Comment" or as a comment, this may have been attributed to Frost at least as early as 1962--> 
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Context: The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
                                    
 
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
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