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Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?

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
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Soon
Men
Moon
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