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“ I wish to preach , not the doctrine of ignoble ease , but the doctrine of the strenuous life , the life of toil and effort , of labor and strife ; to preach the highest form of success which comes , not to the man who desires more 1 ...
“ I wish to preach , not the doctrine of ignoble ease , but the doctrine of the strenuous life , the life of toil and effort , of labor and strife ; to preach the highest form of success which comes , not to the man who desires more 1 ...
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| Title | The Ideals of Theodore Roosevelt |
| Author | Edward Howe Cotton |
| Publisher | D. Appleton, 1923 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Nov 2005 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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