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“The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Source

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Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt
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Context

"How Not To Better Social Conditions" in Review of Reviews (January 1897), p. 39 · Full text online (with at least two typos — in the last sentence of the article) as "How Not To Help Our Poor Brother"

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

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