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The best thing we're put here for's to see The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

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
Best
Towns
Thing
Mystery
Every
Universe
Science
Telescope
Given
Telescopes
Keep
Owes
Someone
Strongest
Seems
Town

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