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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

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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
Nobody
Money
Remember
Ever
Icy
Every
Cent
Invent
Cents
Meant

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The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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