There is quite enough sorrow and shame amd suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. by Theodore Roosevelt

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"There is quite enough sorrow and shame amd suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction." - Copy to Clipboard
-- Theodore Roosevelt

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