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“I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Wikiquote: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Context

As quoted in The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America (2002) by James MacGregor Burns ad Susan Dunn, p. 563

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Roosevelt, Eleanor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Eleanor Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt

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