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“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
— Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood (22 October 2013).
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