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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.

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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Really
Reformers
Never
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Halfway

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