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If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.
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