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Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.

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
Humans
Counts
Limited
Evidence
Courage
Challenges
Virtue
Knowledge
Human
Insufficient

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