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What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
Age: 88 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 26
Died: 1963
Died: January 29
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Playwright
Poet
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Robert Lee Frost
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Beginning
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Nations
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Geography
Home
Territory
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Piece

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