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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.

— Robert Frost

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Attributed in Ray Josephs, "Robert Frost's Secret", in William Nichols (ed.) Words to Live By (Simon and Schuster, 1959), pp. 172–73. Also in Robert I. Fitzhenry (ed.) The Harper Book of Quotations (1993), p. 261, and in Richard Evans' Quote Book (Publishers Press, 1973), p. 109

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