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They had lost all remembrance of Europe and all sympathy with things European
; they had become as emphatically products native to the soil as were the tough
and supple hickories out of which they fashioned the handles of their long , light ...
They had lost all remembrance of Europe and all sympathy with things European
; they had become as emphatically products native to the soil as were the tough
and supple hickories out of which they fashioned the handles of their long , light ...
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... and that we glory in the greatness for which they prepared the way . But lip -
loyalty by itself avails very little , whether it is expressed concerning a nation or
an ideal . It would be a sad and evil thing for this country if ever the day came ...
... and that we glory in the greatness for which they prepared the way . But lip -
loyalty by itself avails very little , whether it is expressed concerning a nation or
an ideal . It would be a sad and evil thing for this country if ever the day came ...
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We hold work not as a curse but as a blessing , and we regard the idler with
scornful pity . It would be in the highest degree undesirable that we should all
work in the same way or at the same things , and for the sake of the real
greatness of the ...
We hold work not as a curse but as a blessing , and we regard the idler with
scornful pity . It would be in the highest degree undesirable that we should all
work in the same way or at the same things , and for the sake of the real
greatness of the ...
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... the moral sense , they become merely forms of expression for unscrupulous
force and unscrupulous cunning . If the strong man has not in him the lift toward
lofty things , his strength makes him only a curse to himself and to his neighbor .
... the moral sense , they become merely forms of expression for unscrupulous
force and unscrupulous cunning . If the strong man has not in him the lift toward
lofty things , his strength makes him only a curse to himself and to his neighbor .
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It is a good thing to have a keen , fine intellectual development in a nation , to
produce orators , artists , successful business men ; but it is an infinitely greater
thing to have those solid qualities which we group together under the name of ...
It is a good thing to have a keen , fine intellectual development in a nation , to
produce orators , artists , successful business men ; but it is an infinitely greater
thing to have those solid qualities which we group together under the name of ...
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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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