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... himself , and to keep those dependent upon him . The woman must be the
housewife , the helpmeet of the homemaker , the wise and fearless mother of
many healthy children . In one of Daudet's powerful and melancholy books he
speaks of ...
... himself , and to keep those dependent upon him . The woman must be the
housewife , the helpmeet of the homemaker , the wise and fearless mother of
many healthy children . In one of Daudet's powerful and melancholy books he
speaks of ...
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Inasmuch as I am speaking to an assemblage of mothers I shall have nothing
whatever to say in praise of any easy life . Yours is the work which is never ended
. No mother has an easy time , and most mothers have very hard times ; and yet ...
Inasmuch as I am speaking to an assemblage of mothers I shall have nothing
whatever to say in praise of any easy life . Yours is the work which is never ended
. No mother has an easy time , and most mothers have very hard times ; and yet ...
Page 70
Disregarding the exceptions , and speaking normally , no man can be of any
service to the State , no man can amount to anything from the standpoint of
usefulness to the community at large , unless first and foremost he is a decent
man in the ...
Disregarding the exceptions , and speaking normally , no man can be of any
service to the State , no man can amount to anything from the standpoint of
usefulness to the community at large , unless first and foremost he is a decent
man in the ...
Page 71
Next to that - and when I am speaking to people who , by birth and training and
standing , ought to amount to a great deal , I have a right to say only ... You will
meet plenty of well - meaning people who speak to you as if one trait were
enough .
Next to that - and when I am speaking to people who , by birth and training and
standing , ought to amount to a great deal , I have a right to say only ... You will
meet plenty of well - meaning people who speak to you as if one trait were
enough .
Page 73
You often hear people speaking as if life was like striving upward toward a
mountain peak . That is not so . Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest . You
have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other ,
and it ...
You often hear people speaking as if life was like striving upward toward a
mountain peak . That is not so . Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest . You
have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other ,
and it ...
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| Title | The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt: Selections from His Writings and Speeches Volume 3 of Publications of the Roosevelt Memorial Association Volume 272 of Riverside literature series Issue 3 of Roosevelt memorial association |
| Author | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Editor | John Ashby Lester |
| Compiled by | Hermann Hagedorn |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923 |
| Length | 325 pages |
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