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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
Pedagogue
Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Separateness
People
Individualism
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Individuality

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