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No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

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
Money
Lift
Country
Scale
Never
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Scales
Gain
Gains
Found
Spirit
Requisite

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