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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
1900·Oyster Bay, New York, USA

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits—the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

Read the full speech→The Strenuous Life (1899) · Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago
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