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“From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.
— Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
1900s / A Square Deal (1903)
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