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The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

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
Doesn
River
Truth
Cease
Rivers
Somewhere
Ceasing
Flow
Canyon
Concern
Canyons
Later
Flows
Question
Sooner

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