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Page 47
... have wrought out your own success and built up these great new
commonwealths , surely you need no reminder of the fact that if either man or
nation wishes to play a great part in the world there must be no dallying with the
life of lazy ease .
... have wrought out your own success and built up these great new
commonwealths , surely you need no reminder of the fact that if either man or
nation wishes to play a great part in the world there must be no dallying with the
life of lazy ease .
Page 51
My plea is that the virtuous man , the decent man , shall be a strong man , able to
hold his own in any way , just because I wish him to be an agent in eradicating
the misconception that being decent somehow means being weak ; I want this to
...
My plea is that the virtuous man , the decent man , shall be a strong man , able to
hold his own in any way , just because I wish him to be an agent in eradicating
the misconception that being decent somehow means being weak ; I want this to
...
Page 52
I wish to see the decent man in any relation of life , including politics , when
hustled by the man who is not decent , able so to hold his own that the other
gentleman shall feel no desire to hustle him again . My plea is for the virtue that
shall be ...
I wish to see the decent man in any relation of life , including politics , when
hustled by the man who is not decent , able so to hold his own that the other
gentleman shall feel no desire to hustle him again . My plea is for the virtue that
shall be ...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons , New York and London , publishers . II . THE STRENUOUS
LIFE I I wish to preach THE ELEMENTAL VIRTUES 55.
G. P. Putnam's Sons , New York and London , publishers . II . THE STRENUOUS
LIFE I I wish to preach THE ELEMENTAL VIRTUES 55.
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THE STRENUOUS LIFE I 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 that highest form of success which comes , not to the man who desires ...
THE STRENUOUS LIFE I 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 that highest form of success which comes , not to the man who desires ...
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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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