"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.“

-Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt quote about life: "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."

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