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Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

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
Respects
Better
Whatsoever
Paying
Anybody
Doubt
Belief
Else
Anything
Rapt

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