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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.

Robert Frost

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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
Cream
Individuality
Rise
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Society
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Homogenized

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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed.
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