QuoteQuest“There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live – I have no use for the sour-faced man – and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.”
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- Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt
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Context
Talk to schoolchildren in Oyster Bay, Christmastime (1898), as quoted in The Bully Pulpit : A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations (2002) by H. Paul Jeffers, p. 22
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Roosevelt, Theodore. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
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