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“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Source

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Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt
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Context

Remarks to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in Chattanooga, Tennessee (8 September 1902).

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Roosevelt, Theodore. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt

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