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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." -
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Top 5 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!"
"The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad."
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad."
"Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well."
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"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."
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